Re: CSS file not being found -- WEB400

Kevin

I've generally used absolute paths, so it'd help me to know how the current folder is determined - I thought it was the folder where the active HTML file is located.

Now if that's true - it's fine for static pages. But dynamic pages are not located anywhere. So what is the current folder then? Is it the document root?

I was just looking up some of this but did not get an answer quickly. I do remember reading about it once upon a time - along with other fairy tales, eh?

Vern

On 1/17/2013 4:20 PM, Kevin Turner wrote:

Steve

You should not have to put a '/' in front of the file name to make it work. That just makes it an absolute path. It should would without '/' as long as the file you are looking for it relative to the current folder.

For example:
/foo/bar/kevin.css
This translates to:
http://www.example.com/foo/bar/kevin.css

But without the slash, it becomes a relative reference rather than absolute:
foo/bar/kevin.css
tells the server to look in the current folder (not the root folder) for the directory "foo" and then drill down to "bar" for kevin.css.
../foo/bar/kevin.css
tells the server to go back one folder from the current folder, then look in directory "foo" and then drill down to "bar" for kevin.css.

So if it doesn't work without a '/', it just means that you are not referencing it properly, relative to the current folder (i.e. the folder in which the HTML file resides that is requesting it).

In other words, if I have a directory structure like this:
myserver
-->htdocs
---->css

If my html file is in myserver/htdocs and my css file (called steve.css) is in myserver/htdocs/css
Then my html can reference the css like this (without a '/' at the start)
href="css/steve.css"

If steve.css is in the same place as the html (i.e in myserver/htdocs) then it can be referenced like this:
href="steve.css"

Clear as mud!
Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: 17 January 2013 21:54
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] CSS file not being found

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Kevin Turner <kevin.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That is what I said in my first reply Steve! :)

I see that now.. Smacks head.

Now that it is working I see that it does not work without the / in front of the .css file name:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/steve.css" /> 
<link rel="stylesheet" href="steve.css" /> 

The <directory> directives are mainly for you to dictate permissions
to various locations in the document root. You can refer to anything in a <directory> directive, but if the directory does not exist, it just gets ignored.

got it.
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