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I have a long html of links with hrefs like this:
href="/directory/subdir/file.pdf"
when I put this site on my internal server, I can see it from a client
machine using the html of links on my client if I only put this line in
the <head> of the html document:
<BASE href="http://myserver/" >
Now,
I put this site on my client on a CD for example running as drive G: .
Its a window machine.
I must modify every link in my html file as follows:
href="./directory/subdir/file.pdf"
or as
href="../directory/subdir/file.pdf"
or as
href="../somelongpath/directory/subdir/file.pdf"
depending on the relative position of my html of links with respect to
the pdf on the same machine.
But due to "somelongpath" the html file becomes messy and I want to
make minimal changes.
Furthermore, I want to put my html file on the same CD. I also want
this CD to be transportable
from machine to machine so that CD may be called D: E: F: or G: etc.
Is there a simple solution to this using something like <BASE href="">
in the head to apply it to all the links?
I tried a few hacks with the BASE but it only seems to cause changes in
absolute path, not the relative path.
I appreciate any help.
equation.
SUMMARY:
(1) a simple method to make the absolute hrefs to relative without
editing them, by somehow prepending to them "../somelongpath/"
href="/directory/subdir/file.pdf"
when I put this site on my internal server, I can see it from a client
machine using the html of links on my client if I only put this line in
the <head> of the html document:
<BASE href="http://myserver/" >
Now,
I put this site on my client on a CD for example running as drive G: .
Its a window machine.
I must modify every link in my html file as follows:
href="./directory/subdir/file.pdf"
or as
href="../directory/subdir/file.pdf"
or as
href="../somelongpath/directory/subdir/file.pdf"
depending on the relative position of my html of links with respect to
the pdf on the same machine.
But due to "somelongpath" the html file becomes messy and I want to
make minimal changes.
Furthermore, I want to put my html file on the same CD. I also want
this CD to be transportable
from machine to machine so that CD may be called D: E: F: or G: etc.
Is there a simple solution to this using something like <BASE href="">
in the head to apply it to all the links?
I tried a few hacks with the BASE but it only seems to cause changes in
absolute path, not the relative path.
I appreciate any help.
equation.
SUMMARY:
(1) a simple method to make the absolute hrefs to relative without
editing them, by somehow prepending to them "../somelongpath/"