Re: Slash problem in link

On Sunday 21 March 2004 05:33, Harpreet wrote: > I am having a weird problem. I am not sure if this is a php problme or > plain html problme but see if anyone can help. > > I have a page called login.php. It has the following image link. It works > at home fine when i put the link as below > > <IMG src="images/onlylogo.gif"> > > We tried putting the same page on another customer and it wont show. We put > a slash in the front of image and it worked and we can view the image. <IMG > src="/images/onlylogo.gif"> > > But the slash does not work at home on my machine. > > When do we have to use the slash and when not ...how can we tell > > please help With the "/" you are delcaring that the image is in the directory "images", relative to the server root (maybe "c:\program files\apache\htdocs\images\onlylogo.gif" giving a webaddress of "http://www.mywebsite.com/images/onlylogo.gif"). Whereas without the "/" you are declaring that the image is in the "images" directory, relative to the PHP script (or HTML page) (maybe "c:\program files\apache\htdocs\MYWEBSITE\images\onlylogo.gif" giving "http://www.mywebsite.com/MYWEBSITE/images/onlylogo.gif"). So I think it is just a HTML problem.