Sub-domain Functionality

[wkg]

Howdy,

 

I have a subdomain set up... http://calendar.austinamericana.com/ which I can access, but the images don't load properly.

 

However, if I enter the URL http://www.austinamericana.com/calendar/ everything looks fine.

 

I must be missing some critical concept on how sub-domains work. Can some one help?

 

Thanks,

Bill

[TCH-Don]

Your image tags are relative (../image)

and your images are in (www.site.com/page_images)

 

so when in the real location ( www.site.com/calendar/)

the tag (../page_images/image) works by

going up a level and then into (page_images)

 

Change your image tags to absolute (www.site.com/page_images/image)

 

or put them in the same folder as the site

 

or a folder below (www.site.com/calendar/page_images/image)

and change the tag to (page_images/image)

hope this helps

[wkg]

Thanks, Turtle, although your method would work, I was reluctant to go in and change all my links. But you did trigger a memory of an HTML element I'd seen in the past, never used, and never quite understood what it was used for - the BASE element. I had to go look it up in the spec and then gave it a try.

 

By adding:

 

<BASE href="http://www.austinamericana.com/calendar/index.html">

 

in the HEAD of my document all the relative links point to the right place no matter which entry (domain or subdomain) is used.

 

Thanks, I've learned something today

 

Bill

[TCH-Don]

Thank you Bill, I had forgotten about BASE too, and I may redo my image links as well, now that I have a use for it. I had to look it up now too, and I also found the target option, I had also forgotten about, maybe I should re read the book LOL

have a nice day!