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swazi
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:04 pm    Post subject: public_html Reply with quote
G'day folks,

Hope this isn't a frequently asked question.. I use Abyss to keep local copies of websites I maintain on a variety of servers. There's one site, on an apache server presumably on a unix system, which has a "public_html" directory structure I'd like to be able to emulate under windows. Is it possible?

I've recreated the directory structure, but Abyss serves it up differently.. What is remotely /swazi/public_html/images/image.jpg I keep in E:\home\swazi\public_html\images\image.jpg, with my root being E:\home.. It gets served up as http://swazi.domain.com/images/image.jpg, with Abyss it comes out as http://127.0.0.1/swazi/public_html/images/image.jpg.. if i just use a relative link /images/image.jpg it churns out 127.0.0.1/images/image.jpg, neither of which are correct.. (don't bother with the links themselves, they're just examples.. :o)

is there a work-around so that i don't have to edit the code before I upload?


thanks
swazi
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
If I'm reading it right, you just need to change the root of the website in Abyss.

On Linux/Unix/whatever hosting, /swazi/public_html/ is treated as the root folder of your website, so /swazi/public_html/images is just /images in a relative link in your code.

On Abyss it sounds like you have pointed the root to E:\ where you should have pointed it to the public_html directory instead, which would give you the same relative link structure.

Hope this makes sense?
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swazi
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
G'day 'moose..

You are correct, yes, but i think i was unclear. For a start, changing the root would then break the other sites I host on my local server. Also, I don't know if it would break the HTML that refers to /swazi/cgi-bin which resides alongside /swazi/public_html rather than beneath it.

I use abyss primarily to serve my client's website as I design them, at http://127.0.0.1/client. If I need the client to see the site, I can send 'em to http://n.n.n.n/client. When finished, I'll upload it to http://theirISP.com/client or quite frankly, wherever the hell they want it.

I'm just trying to reduce the amount of code I need to change between my local server and wherever the code might go..

Was just thinking, can i do sub-domains with Abyss on localhost?



cheers,
swazi
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swazi
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
problem solvered - switched to apache.. :o)
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 2:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Saying that here's like walking into an airport with a detinator in your hand.
But I don't think it will solve your problem, really. You just need to make your paths relative, E.G. link to /client/page2.html, or page2.html, instead of http://mydomain.com/page2.html.
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swazi
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 4:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
MonkeyNation wrote:
Saying that here's like walking into an airport with a detinator in your hand.


:o) I've never really been fond of .conf files and doing all the setup by hand, so to speak, which i why I always tried to avoid going to apache. But if I want my sites to work locally in the same manner as they do remotely, I guess I need to do as the romans do..


MonkeyNation wrote:
But I don't think it will solve your problem, really. You just need to make your paths relative, E.G. link to /client/page2.html, or page2.html, instead of http://mydomain.com/page2.html.


I was of course already using relative links. The problem I've found was the way apache redirects folder's on a per-user basis. An hour or so of fiddling with the .conf file sorted my problem out, and I can now access the local version of the website in question at http://swazi.localhost in the exact same manner as I access the remote version. The downside of this is that I can't redirect anyone from outside my machine to that address, but then the whole purpose of this exercise is for my own benefit... or i couldof course get myself a domain name...


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