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How to keep a website with url routing directory independent

Answer 1

+7 A:

You could put in the head

<base href="<?php echo url::base(); ?>" />

This will mean the browser will request any non-absolute URLs relative to that path. ~~However I am not sure how this would affect URLs embedded in CSS files etc.~~ This does not affect paths defined in CSS files. (thanks mooware)

Tom Haigh 2008-11-09 20:32:43

According to the CSS specification, URLs in CSS files are resolved relative to the path of the file they are defined in. So the base-tag doesn't affect them at all. I tried it, and it really works that way.

mooware 2009-08-28 02:33:02

Answer 2

+1 A:

tomhaigh has a good point, and would be worthwhile to investigate it further.

According to MSDN, the base tag works for all external sources, including style sheets, images, etc.

Anton Babushkin 2008-11-09 21:31:27

Answer 3

A:

Perhaps I'm missing something, but can't you just do what I (and I thought everybody else) do/es? Namely put all your images, css, javascripts, etc in a common directory i.e.:

/inc/images/
/inc/css/
/inc/javascript/
etc

And then reference them with base-relative URLs, i.e.:

<img src="/inc/images/foo.jpg" />
etc

?

da5id 2008-11-09 22:30:17

Answer 4

+1 A:

The <base> thing will work but you need to remember it's going to affect your <a> tags too. Consider this example.:

<!-- this page is http://oursite.com/index.html -->
<html>
 <head>
    <base href="http://static.oursite.com/" />
 </head>
 <body>
    <img src="logo.gif" alt="this is http://static.oursite.com/logo.gif" />
    <a href="/login">this links to http://static.oursite.com/login which is not what we wanted.  we wanted http://oursite.com/login&lt;/a&gt;
 </body>
</html>

If you use a PHP function call for creating your links, that won't be a problem as you can just make sure it spits out absolute URL. But if you (or your designers) hand-code the <a> tags then you're stuck with the same problem again, just now with <a> instead of <img>.

EDIT: I should add the above paragraph is assuming you serve images from a different host name like we do. If you don't then obviously that won't be a problem.

2008-11-10 13:37:38

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