referencing sub-dirs of htdocs

[pi_1]

I have a problem referencing sub-dirs of htdocs in my html code.

 

This works fine:

src="images/pic.gif"

 

But This fails:

src="/images/pic.gif"

 

Unfortunately I have a lot of existing code which uses the second example's format (with the preceding slash). I need to configure my WAMP to work with this format.

 

I am installing WAMP to match the php + mysql versions on an existing web server. So I cannot change versions of php nor mysql. I am using:

Apache 1.3.37

PHP 4.46

MySQL 4.1.22

 

• Can I configure Apache to work with this format: src="/images/pic.gif" ?
  
• Or would another version of Apache work?
  

 

Thanks

Phil

[wildteen88]

That should work fine. When you have / at the beginning of a file path it means root. / should tell Apache to request the file 'images/pic.gif' from the document root.

 

There may be a configuration issue or Apache1.3.x doesn't support it. I'm not sure I'll have a look at the Apache documentation.