Links Across Subdomains

[oompahloompah]

How do I maintain image links across subdomains using relative URLs?

 

Is there any other way apart from using base href or typing the full URL? I understand that using base href may be an inefficient way of coding as this would turn all my links into absolutes.

 

For example,

img src = "/some-folder/some-picture.gif"> would not work for a subdomain

if the full path for /some-folder = /../public_html/some-folder

 

Is it possible to create a symlink on our home directories? How do I go about doing it since there's no shell? Also, would this affect the performance of page loading in any way?

 

Thanks, it would be really helpful to know.

[borfast]

I think your best option is to use absolute URL's. Why do you say it would be an inefficient way of coding?

 

The only other way I see is for you to use "../some_folder/some_picture.gif" but that is what I consider inefficient, because if you want to move the directory where that HTML file is one level deeper in the directory tree, the image link will no longer work.

[oompahloompah]

I agree... the ../some_folder way does seem inefficient.

 

I would like a central resource to be accessed via a root-relative URL that would work on multiple subdomains eg thisplace.****/resource/ would point to the same folder as anotherplace.****/resource/ or in other words, doing a src=/resource/ would work across subdomains.

 

Is there any way this can be done? If possible, I would like to maintain my root-relative URLs to be the same and in as concise form as possible. Long and wieldy coding is personally in my opinion visually inefficient. I don't think and don't know of any performance inefficiency though between the two formats.

 

I guess a symlink cannot be done via ftp or the cpanel?

[TCH-Bruce]

You would have to open a support ticket with the help desk and explain what you wanted to link. They would be the only ones that could create a symbolic link.

[borfast]

Well, the idea of using .htaccess with some mod_rewrite rules just came to my mind but I'm not sure it it's possible...