flash movie won't load? linking issue?

Question

artoferichu.com/figures/ doesn't load. artoferichu.com/figures loads.

the flash movie won't load in the first link and loads in the second link. any idea what is going on??

i'm using .htaccess to redirect figures to figures.php

oh btw, my .htacces looks like this: RewriteRule ^figures/?$ figures.php

Answer 1

You're loading the Flash file using a relative path, which is resolved relative to the folder in the URL.

With the trailing slash, the URL is interpreted as a folder named /figures/, without a filename.
Therefore, it tries to load load the Flash file from http://artoferichu.com/figures/figures.swf.

Without the trailing slash, the URL is interpreted as a file named figures in the root folder. Therefore, it tries to load load the Flash file from http://artoferichu.com/figures.swf.

To fix it, you can either change the page to load the Flash file from an absolute path (/Figures.swf) or add a redirect rule for /figures/figures.swf.