[opencms-dev] The relativeroot property

[Alexander Kandzior]

Mark, 
 
the "relativeroot" property feature is currently experimental. It
intended for the link replacement engine rather then the static export. 
 
The use case scenario is difficult to describe, but will try:
*	Image two folders, /one/ and /two/.
*	Now image have some page files /one/a.html and /one/b.html.
*	Then create VFS links from /two/a.html to /one/a.html and from
/two/b.html to /one/b.html so that you have the content of these pages
in one place and re-use it in another place.
*	Problems are caused e.g. by http links in the editable content
of /one/a.html to /one/b.html. The OpenCms link replacement engine will
always make these linke "absolute". Normally, in HTML code of a.html you
would write <a href="b.html">..</a> to link form a to b, but this is
replaced with the absolute path /one/b.html by the engine. No Problem in
the /one/ folder, but in the /two/ folder the linked page a.html will
link to /one/a.html and not to /two/b.html which is usually not what you
want. 
*	'Using the "relativeroot" property set on the /one/ folder you
can tell the link replacer to make all links relative, e.g. if you set
relativeroot to "/one" this prefix will be removed in the http links, in
which case the linked pages in folder "/two" will work as expected. 
Hey I told you it is difficult to describe... and again, this feature is
exerimental.

Best Regards,
Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com <http://www.alkacon.com/>  
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
[mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Mark Miller
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 4:06 PM
To: OpenCMS Mailing List
Subject: [opencms-dev] The relativeroot property


Hello there,
 
My first post to this list so a little shy :-)
 
Can anyone let me know how the relativeroot property works .. I have
tried, but to no avail, to implement it.
I have a project with the following exported structures
 
 
/system/modules/MYMOD/resources/css                           ->
exported to /www/resources/css
/system/modules/MYMOD/resources/images                      -> exported
to /www/resources/images
and
/www/ (html content files)
-> exported to /www/
 
all are statically exported to a /www/ directory. I want to set the
relative root to /www/ so that all links will start off with /www/ being
the root
ie. A html content file should reference an image in resources/images/
and NOT in /www/resources/images/
 
This way I can then copy the contents of the www folder directly to my
web server.
 
Or am I thinking about this in the wrong way ????
 
 
Many thanks in advance,
 
Mark
 
PS. I am very new to CMS in general . so sorry if a silly question
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