Need Solution for Linking Pages Together 1

[johngiggs]

I created a script which creates a webpage daily. I keep 7 days of historical reports. Before the script gets run, the page in the main directory gets moved to directory 1, what's in directory 1 gets moved to directory 2, and so on. In the webpage, I have hyperlinks to the previous days reports, however the problem is that when the report that was originally in the main directory gets moved to directory 1, the hyperlinks will not work properly anymore because of the way I have them set up (based on the page being in the main directory).

Just to clarify...
The link part of the page is set up like this:

Days Ago: <A HREF="1/test_df.html">1</A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="2/test_df.html">2</A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="3/test_df.html">3</A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="4/test_df.html">4</A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="5/test_df.html">5</A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="6/test_df.html">6</A>&nbsp;
<A HREF="7/test_df.html">7</A>
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Any suggestions as to how I can make this work without having to specify the full path (just in case I decide to move the location of the files at some point)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

>> Any suggestions as to how I can make this work without having to specify the full path

Maybe I'm missing the point... But you're not specifying the full path - you're specifying a relative path, and so I would assume that your code would still function perfectly well.

Dan

 

[johngiggs]

Billy,

I know that it would work fine if I specify the full path, but I was wondering if there is a solution using the relative path.

Right now, when I move the files from the main directory into directory 1 (a subdirectory of the main one), the link on the main page will work fine, but since the page in directory 1 has the relative path, when I click the link for 2 days ago after I am on the 1 day ago page, the link will go to 1/2/test_df.html rather than ../2/test_df.html. Perhaps there is not a relative path solution and I will just have to put the full path in...

John

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Aah - I see.

If you add the following line to the very top of each file after you move them:

<base href="../">

that should do the trick. I've not tested this, but the logic is sound ;o)

Hope this helps,
Dan

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Incidentally, you can read more about the BASE element here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/base.asp

Dan

 

[nawlej]

if you are running apache, and you have the ability to do so, I would install mod_rewrite and create a rule for it.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

My apologies... I said to put the BASE tag at the very top of the page, but it should actually go within the HEAD section.

Dan

 

[johngiggs]

Dan,

Thanks for the tip about BASE!! I hadn't thought of that. It works great now.

John