The only way to get FP to support absolute URLs, which it can not manage if
you later change the location of the object, is to create a link from within
FP to the object on the remote server.
FP will not let you create a web at the root of drive, since when FP98 was
first released, user where converting their C drive to root web, and then
when they delete the web, they also delete the content on their C drive, so
you have to work with a folder off of the root of the drive.
If you were working via IIS, then I have a ASP solution, but it requires all
pages to be .asp.
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"Graham Wideman (Visio MVP)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Thomas:
>
> I think you missed the point. Sure, relative links work on local file
> system. But I need absolute links to work too.
>
> Why? Because I have some clusters of pages that are used on different
sites
> that need to point to images and other pages that are at some fixed
location
> on each site, while the refering pages may be in different locations --
> hence relative links don't work.
>
> For example, I have software autogenerate some pages that should all
> incorporate a site-specific logo, eg: from /images/logo.gif.
>
> But the generator software doesn't know where those pages will be located,
> hence can't generate relative link. (This is just one example of the
> problem.)
>
> So I ask again -- how do you get FP to create a web at root level of a
drive
> (eg: using W:\index.htm as home page)... or alternatively get FP to load
> absolute URLs relative to web's root dir?
>
> Graham
>
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> Graham Wideman
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> "Thomas A. Rowe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > Make sure you have a web open in FP at all times and if creating a new
> web,
> > it must be a folder. All links need be enter as ../images/etc.jpg etc.
> >
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> > Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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> >
> > "Graham Wideman (Visio MVP)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > Folks:
> > >
> > > I'd like to be able to use FrontPage (2002) to work on webs on the
local
> > > file system. FP works fine it all links within the web are relative.
> > >
> > > But there's a problem with absolute links because FP retrieves those
> files
> > > using the literal path in the URL, rather than relative to the root of
> the
> > > web... and this is what I'd like to work around.
> > >
> > > Example:
> > > FP Web at D:\myweb, with some images in D:\myweb\images
> > >
> > > If page D:\myweb\somepage.htm contains a link to /images/some.gif,
then
> FP
> > > will look for it at D:\images\some.gif, instead of at
> > > D:\myweb\images\some.gif -- in a sense this is correct behavior if the
> > > intent was to set up pages that IE can browse locally -- but it
prevents
> > > using local editing to simulate deployed web.
> > >
> > > So, although the web will work fine when deployed, it doesn't work
while
> > > editing locally.
> > >
> > > I attempted to work around this by creating a web at the root
directory
> of
> > > the drive (actually a subst drive), but FP refuses to set up web in a
> root
> > > directory.
> > >
> > > (When I try to start a blank web at "W:\", I get an error dialog:
"There
> > is
> > > no web named /W".)
> > >
> > > Any suggestions as to how to do what I'm trying to do?
> > >
> > > (OK, one workaround is to set up IIS on local machine -- but I'd
rather
> > > avoid that effort and security hazard... this should be easy!)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Graham
> > >
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> > > Visio 2002 Developer's Survival Pack
> > > diagramantics.com
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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