[Coco] Gene, heads up again, I cannot access your site.

[gene heskett]

On Monday, August 22, 2011 02:51:25 PM Lothan did opine:

> From: gene heskett
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 8:46 AM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Gene, heads up again, I cannot access your site.
> 
> On Monday, August 22, 2011 08:41:16 AM Lothan did opine:
> >> Have you tried using relative URLs instead of fully-qualified URLs?
> >> Using a relative URL like <img
> >> src="/gene/pix/EasterSundayCropped2004-1.jpg" /> or <a
> >> href="/gene/Genes-os9-stf">...</a> lets the browser figure out the
> >> fully-qualified URL based on the URL used to access the site so links
> >> continue to work regardless of the mechanism used to access the site.
> >
> >I am not a gee whiz webmaster by any means, but after I've had some
> >coffee I might try that, thanks.  Humm, should I not remove the
> >leading slash though?  I do not have a mount point 'gene'.
> 
> I typically use the leading slash to anchor all the URLs to the root of
> the website, but this may be a matter of personal taste. Not using the
> slash theoretically makes it easier to move and rename folders without
> having to edit a bunch of links, but I've found it can make it more
> difficult for a human to figure out where links are really pointing if
> say someone moves a file from folder X to folder Y and forgets to
> update the links to X/foo and there's also a Y/foo or a Z/foo. There
> shouldn't be duplicate foos in my book, but I don't live in a perfect
> world either. I think that's why someone coined snafu.
> 
Yes, that is a word I learned in about 1947 or 8.  ;-)

That said, all of the stuff there is either direct subdirs in the html 
tree, or links from it, so I have removed the address from my hosts file, 
and edited the index.html links to use the ./linkname syntax and it all 
seems to work here, try:
<http://204.111.25.156:85/gene/> to see if I've left anything broken.

Cheers, gene
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