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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:49:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan McDonald <mutex77@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [users@httpd] relative links get broken when adding vhost

Hi,

I work at a large University and im stuck on this
apache problem. Its best explained with an example:

I have a website at
www.domain.edu/dept/sci/bio/frogs/green/poison and the
index.html file has links like ../../frogs/eyes.gif 
/style/style.css ../../../images/icon.jpg and
images/wart.jpg

User wants biofrogs.domain.edu subdomain, and would
like it pointed to the
/dept/sci/bio/frogs/green/poison directory. A
VirtualHost entry makes that the new top level
directory. 

Now there's problems.
biofrogs.domain.edu/style/style.css and
www.domain.edu/style/style.css are pointing to
completely different files. ../../../images/icon.jpg
wouldnt even be accessible on the subdomain unless you
use a absolute link etc etc. Because the DocumentRoot
changed obviously all these relative links are broken.


Is there a way to fix this other than writing the
html, or making symlinks in the new DocRoot? I really
wanted mod_rewrite to match a "../../file" request,
but it just matches the file it points to. 

Any ideas would be great! 

Thanks
Dan


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