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Dave Logan

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Since: Feb 23, 2008
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:04 pm
Post subject: Is it possible for my local webs to be roots?
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Hi

I'm using WinXP with IIS. For development I use a mixture of FP2002 and
Dreamweaver. I would like to be able to use root-relative links, but they
don't work on my local webs, because, for example, if I'm working on the
local web http://localhost/davesweb/, my browser (and Dreamweaver and even
FrontPage) think the web's root is http://localhost/, whereas it is actually
http://localhost/davesweb/, so root-relative links don't work. Is there any
way of getting http://localhost/davesweb/ to be recognised as a root?

Dave

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JPElectron

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:56 pm
Post subject: Re: Is it possible for my local webs to be roots? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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This seems kinda crazy to me, but what if you made a custom 404 error
page like this...

HTTP Error: 404
Message Type: URL
URL: /davesweb

....perhaps then your root-relative links would all work out?

The "right" way to do it is make a new site in IIS where the \davesweb
folder is really the root of the site.

However, XP's IIS is crippled to a concurrent connection limit of 10,
and allows only one website.

so... delete the site you've got, then make a new site starting in c:\
[your path]\davesweb

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Daniel Crichton

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:15 pm
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Dave wrote on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:46:39 -0000:

> Hi

> I'm using WinXP with IIS. For development I use a mixture of FP2002 and
> Dreamweaver. I would like to be able to use root-relative links, but
> they don't work on my local webs, because, for example, if I'm working
> on the local web http://localhost/davesweb/, my browser (and
> Dreamweaver and even
> FrontPage) think the web's root is http://localhost/, whereas it is
> actually http://localhost/davesweb/, so root-relative links don't
> work. Is there any way of getting http://localhost/davesweb/ to be
> recognised as a root?

> Dave

The root is actually http://localhost - root relative links are not
application root relative, they are server root, which will always point to
the folder mapped to the site. XP only supports one site, and so only ever
has a single root.

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