[milf]

I usually use relative links to navigate between site pages and have never had many problems before. I am developing a page on my Mac using the http://127.0.0.1 address. I can use the ./ and ../ constructs to remain in the same directory or go up a directory, respetively, but I thought something like this /foo/bar.gif would start at the home directory, then go into the folder 'foo' and find the file 'bar.gif'. Whenever I try and use this form, it never finds the file that I need. Is there something specific that I need to do? If my site is contained in http://127.0.0.1/~eric how would I access a folder in the root directory?

[Millennium]

The thing is, a URL is not necessarily a directory reference. It looks like one (this was deliberate), and there is often a fairly good correspondence, but it doesn't quite hold.

You're mostly sunk, I'm afraid. If you need to get back to your DOCUMENT_ROOT without knowing where your own page is, you have to use absolute URL's.

There is something you can do to spare yourself some pain, though. HTML has a tag called BASE. You can put this in the HEAD of your document, and use it to determine the "starting point" for all relative URL's in that page. You can put this tag into a server-side include and then include that in all the files which need it, and then if you ever have to change the URL for your DOCUMENT_ROOT you only have to change the one file and it'll be reflected in all of them.

[milf]

Okay, thanks. I'll look up more on this [base] tag. Thanks for the info.