Hi, I have my webserver to have a subdirectory called html to be the root, but I have two other directories, images and css which are not subdirectories of html. I have tried accessing the files in images and css by doing http://www.website.com/../images/hello.jpg but this doesn't work. Must all of my files be in the html directory?
To a first approximation, yes. It would be a Very Bad Thing if people could just wander through your server's filesystem at will just by fiddling with the URL.