Re: Dreamweaver 3 problem and DW4 question

Elizabeth,

         If I am following you correctly (and I know some things are hard 
to explain) then I have gotten around this type of situation by setting up 
all links as if they were being called by the script.  The end result is 
that Dreamweaver in design mode will show the "i don't have this image" 
graphic and your pages may look funny. I would create the template, get it 
looking nice and then drop to the code and make the changes by hand to make 
it script relative. When they are uploaded the script is called, the link 
is document relative to the script and voila.
         However, there is another issue I see here. It seems that your 
development environment does not in any way match your live environment. 
This is fine for static sites (sometimes) but can be a real pain in the a$$ 
for dynamic sites and large sites. Maybe I am just missing something, but 
getting a development server set up identically to the live server will 
solve this problem and many others down the road.
         Actually, I just thought of something else that may apply. Have 
you looked at your live site or your development site through FTP? I worked 
on a site a while back which had a virtual directory set to 
www.domainname.com/cgi-bin/ however the actual folder was below the root 
folder that was accessible through www.domainname.com/ this meant that 
server relative and document relative files were actually very different 
since one used the virtual directory as it's reference point and the links 
in the Perl files used the physical directory hierarchy.  Might be worth 
checking out. Apparently, some admins set the server up this way for 
security reasons.

HTH,
Stephen Johnston


At 02:27 PM 01/25/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Thanks to those that offered suggestions.
>
>In essence, I've think that DW3 doesn't handle this because everything must
>either be root-relative or document-relative. In situations where you
>dynamically generate html pages and make your directories modular, you
>actually need the links to be document-relative to the SCRIPT file: NOT to
>the html file.
>
>To get around this I made it root-relative, but then it does not transfer to
>a live site. So all pages had to be detached from the template and the links
>replaced to be relative to the script file.
>
>The latest conversation on DW4 noted that it was more development
>friendly.... Will it allow you to set the document-relative path in a
>situation like above? Any feedback from DW4 users would be appreciated. I
>will be doing ALOT of this type of site, and would sure like to have those
>Templates available even after the site is live.
>
>Elizabeth Davies
>West Interactive
>Systems Development
>Web Designer
>(402)573-3386 (West6: X206-7562)

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