[Zope] URL relative to document, not folder. How to fix?

[Kevin Teague]

Hi,

The problem is how the web browser interprets the relative links -- it 
thinks that the methods called on Zope objects are actually levels in 
the hierarchy. For instance, if a user views:

http:://mysite.com/Members/myuser/index_html/document_view

Then ./sibling.html is linked to:

http:://mysite.com/Members/myuser/index_html/sibling.html

But if the user views:

http:://mysite.com/Members/myuser/index_html

Then ./sibling is linked to:

http:://mysite.com/Members/myuser/sibling.html

Which is what you want.

The easiest way to fix this problem is to set base tag to the URL of the 
object. Put something in standard_html_header that generates code that 
looks like:

<base href="/Members/myuser/index_html">

Then all links in the document should work as expected.


James Hazard wrote:
> Thanks.  "Acquisition", i.e., that it finds doc1.html/doc2.html, makes sense
> to me.  The part I find hard to believe is having to rewrite links into a
> special Zope format.  HTML links of "sibling.html" or  "../docInParent.html"
> are, as far as I know, conventional.  Writing them as "../sibling.html" or
> "../../docInParent.html" is confusing and means they won't work if someone
> copies a group of documents onto a non-Zope system.
> 
> Am I making sense?
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Max M
>>>Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 12:59 PM
>>>To: James Hazard
>>>Cc: zope@zope.org
>>>Subject: Re: [Zope] URL relative to document, not folder. How to fix?
>>>
>>>
>>>James Hazard wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>It seems that the path is relative to the document and not the folder,
>>>>so to speak.  Have I got something misconfigured?
>>>
>>>
>>>It's called aquisition and is quite normal ... in Zope :-)
>>>
>>>just imagine that the correct amount of ../../../../ is inserted
>>>automagically, and then it is quite easy to image what a path should be.
>>>
>>>regards Max M
>>>
>>>--
>>>
>>>"Sorry I would Really Like To Help More On This Project,
>>>But Am To Busy Doing Paid Work On A Tight Deadline"
>>>   Max M
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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