It's All Relative... or is it?

greyghost11

Greetings!
Here's the deal: I've copied my company website to my laptop to test new pages as I learn PHP. On my local drive, I'm running XAMPP server and it seems to be working.

HOWEVER, when I point my browser to a file in the directory where I've copied the entire website to (with the exact same file structure mind you) the pages are not rendered at all... or you can just see the little ghost images with the X where the image is supposed to be.

I've noticed in the code that the file path links are all relative links but that they seem to have a backslash in front of the subdirectory-- i.e. <img src="/images/photo.jpg">-- whereas I am used to no backslash when the folder is in the same directory as the index file. Does PHP need this?

When I remove the slash, some images work in the browser on my laptop version of the site, but why would it be that way on the company server?

Huuggee

what platform are these two different machines on? (work server and your laptop) and are both running apache?

greyghost11

Both are running Apache server and I have windows XP and (I think PHP4)

thanks

Dvector

Are both machines WinXP?

greyghost11

I think the server is Linux

greyghost11

... the company's server I mean (sorry).

ShawnK

It could be the software you are using. What software are you using? I know dreamweaver and zend studio modify url's to match a file structure.

greyghost11

Not using Dreamweaver or any page maker.
Now that I have the directory structure the same it seems to be reading HTML but the PHP template file is not showing up.

I think it has something to do with the code not finding this DOCUMENT_ROOT file which is the template for all our pages. I don't understand where it is looking for these these variables. This is the code that heads all our pages:

<?php
$common = $SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/common/";
require_once($SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/common/consts.html");
//$fname=$GET['fn'];
if($fname == "") {
$fname = "about_body.php";
require_once($SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].PATH.$fname);
}
//give title and meta tags for the page if they are not set in the body
if ($title == "") $title = "My Company";
//--$meta_cont = "";
//--$meta_desc = "";
include_once($common.'head_tag.html');
//Identify the page by setting it to a constant from consts.html
$nav = ABOUT;

//-----------------------------------------//
//---- page is displayed from here ---//

//for custom tops of the page set below to "true" and provide the title
$no_title_images = false;
//if above is false, do not forget to provide the images
//if files where not set in the body, set it here
if ($top_left_img == "")
$top_left_img = "/images/secondary_char_about.jpg";
if ($page_title_img == "")
$page_title_img = "/images/secondary_titleheads_about.jpg";
$no_title_images = false;
include_once($common.'body_top.html');
?>