Relative vs Fullpath URL

[justmehere]

My question is simply how do you use full path in hypertext links vs relative. I cannot get the full path URL links to work.

For example:

I am running the my document path as follows c:\my-website
within this directory I have the index.htm file which loads fine and sub-directories.

e.g.
subfolder1
subfolder2
...

Now if I have a URL in the index.htm page pointing to another webpage located in a subfolder as follows:

http://192.168.1.99/subfolder1/webpage.htm

it will not work. I can get to the root index page but when click on the URL
http://192.168.1.99/subfolder1/webpage.htm and get page cannot be displayed.

However if I change the URL located in the index.htm page to "/subfolder1/webpage.htm" (relative) it works. I wish to use the full path and not a relative path link. I have looked all over the console web server configuration page and cannot figure it out from there.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

[aprelium]

justmehere,

It is a good practice to use virtual paths instead of full URLs in the HTML code of your site. So use /subfolder1/webpage.htm instead of http://192.168.1.99/subfolder1/webpage.htm for the values of HREF and SRC HTML arguments.

This is recommended because with virtual paths only the sites contents can be viewed regardless of your domain name or IP changes. If you hardcode the full IP/domain name in HTML code as in http://192.168.1.99/subfolder1/webpage.htm , you'll have to change all your HTML pages everytime the IP changes which a loss of time and energy.

For your information, browsers know how to make a full URL from a virtual path only. So you need not to give them the full URL unless your are linking to a page which is not on your site.
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[justmehere]

Thank you for the helpful reply. I will use the relative path for all links as you have said should the IP address change the URL links will no longer work.

But last question will the full path work with Abyss webserver (free edition) ? I was using an older version of MyWeb with full path links and when I switched to Abyss the links stopped working.

http://www.xuebrothers.net/myweb/myweb.htm

Thank you

P.S.

The other reason I was using full path was because the full path was not correctly being displayed in the address bar. I am using Word 2000 to create my website.

[Anonymoose]

[justmehere]

Thanks again to everyone for the helpful information.

Final question what is wrong with using Word 2000 ? Is there a better html editor that is easy to use for beginners like myself ?

[Anonymoose]

[aprelium]

[justmehere]

Thanks to everyone for the super help. Very much appreciated. Cheers.