PHP port from linux to windows link problem

mkcheznous

ASP programmer dipping toes into PHP - hit brick wall so apologies in advance.

I am trying to get a PHP app written for linux web server to work on my win 98 PC. I am using Apache web server 2.0.47 with Mysql 4.0.14. It only took 4 days to get this lot working !

Anyway on to my PHP problem.

I can get the php pages to serve but the relative html links for the images (e.g. /images/img.gif) are not displaying because the browser thinks it equate to the root of the drive not the webpages directory (e.g. C:\images\img.gif rather than c:\website\pages\images\img.gif).

Do I have to manually change all the code or is there something obvious (but not to me) that I have missed. I don't wwant to change the code because later it is to go back to a linux server.

pyro

/images/img.gif is not a relative path. It is an absolute path, pointing to img.gif in the images sub directory of your root dir. A relative path would look like this: images/img/gif

mkcheznous

The point is the code works on a linux server but don't on a PC - why ?

csevey

The correct output should be "images/img.gif" not "/images/img.gif". If you change it in your code it should be compatible with Win and Linux as well. My guess is that it has something to do with the underlying file system, but not 100% sure.

When you put a "/" infront that usually means "start at root". Which would interpret your path to your images as C:\images\img.gif

You may be able to get away with "./images/img.gif" but I've never tried this before... Might be worth the experiment.

CSevey

mkcheznous

Thanks for this. It certainly will work under Windows by changing the code and i think you are right in that the leading slash is indicative of root to linux .

The puzzling thing is that the file directory level is the same on both machines so I cannot understand why it actually works under linux. Is there something you can set at a global level in lLinux to tell it to interprete "/" as next subdirectory from current document ?

csevey

Probably not at the OS level. If I where to look anywhere, it would be either the Apache or PHP config files.

Personaly I think this is a bad idea though. If you start editing Apache or PHP to fix your programming errors, you will no longer be able to load your software on any other system without going in and making changes to a service.

In addition to that, it could make things even worse. If you attempt to load a correctly coded file, it could interpret "images/img.gif" as though its in the same directory.

Chances are your barking up the wrong tree and i'd be best if you just corrected your code.

Just my 2cents.

CSevey