Okay, I feel totally stupid posting this. I am not sure if it is classified as a programming question, but its close enough. In my web application, one page uses relative links like this:
<img src='images/start.png' />
My other page is in exactly the same directory, but firebug says that the above code equals http://localhost/projectFolder/viewtrip.php/images/start.png. I am confused, and I feel like a total idiot. Is there something I am obviously doing wrong?
is there a base tag in the HTML somewhere?
like this? <base href="http://localhost/myfolder/viewtrip.php" />
(there shouldn't be it doesn't make sense but I can't think of something else)
p.s. where in firebug do you see this path?
When you specify a relative path, you are saying the browser that that element is in that place using the current document as base. Where is the images directory in your website? If you put a / at the front of the path, you are saying the browser that the element can be found using the root from your website as base. The only real value I have found to use ./ or ../ in front of paths is to have a proper rendering on preview while editing the file and some times it causes trouble (for me) at release time.