How can I use absolute paths in my website while testing on my local filesystem? I know that I can use / to access the root directory of my website. However, this works only when my website is on the server. I want to be able to use absolute paths on my local filesystem so that I can do proper testing before uploading.
Is there a way to set a variable to a root directory in HTML? Something similar to Linux where you can define a variable WEBPATH=/home/user/website. Thus I can use e.g src="WEBPATH/folder/file.html for all the files I use in my website and I can modify WEBPATH depending on whether I am testing locally or using the server root folder.
I am open to other workarounds as well.
I'm assuming you're using a file url to access your HTML in the browser, in which case an easy way to get absolute paths working is by using a local webserver to serve your site.
If you have Python 3 installed, you can run python3 -m http.server from the command line at your web root, and it will serve your site at localhost:8000.
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I'm making a website that I used to edit directly online on Neocities, but due to some problems, I'm looking to switch my editing to local offline. But I can't make my links point correctly to their targets, such as the favicon or my css files because locally, "/" doesn't point to the root.
Is there any program that allows me to set a folder as the root directory so these links can point properly? I'm currently trying Notepad++ but I haven't found a way to do so.
I know I could put the full path as "C:\folder\folder\file.css" for examle, but that would mean I'd have to edit the html of every single of my many pages and then re-edit them when I upload them online, and that's very undesirable. I need a way to preview the html locally without changing any paths, so my favicon link, for example, which currently is href="/favicon.png" can stay unchanged on all the pages. I could remove the "/" but then it wouldn't work for any pages within subfolders, and there's a lot of those in my project.
It's possible that I'm just missing some simple detail but I'm really just very much a beginner to making websites in general.
You can run a local web server to serve the contents of your root directory at a domain like http://localhost:8080. So rather than opening index.html in the browser you visit that URL instead.
There are a bunch of simple web servers you can use - my favourite for purposes like this is the NPM package http-server. It requires Node to be installed.
Install node
Install http-server by executing npm install -g http-server in your Terminal
Run the http-server by navigate to the website root folder and run http-server in your Terminal
http-server will produce an output that will tell you where to access the site.
Starting up http-server, serving ./
http-server version: 14.1.0
Available on:
http://127.0.0.1:8080
http://localhost:8080
Hit CTRL-C to stop the server
I have a website that can have images in varying directories. I'm
running Linux and some of the images can be in /tmp/ while others in a directory that isn't within the codebase's one. So for example, I have:
/tmp/
/home/work/codebase/htmlfiles
/home/stuff/stuff/images
The code I'm using to try and access these directories is this:
<img src="' + path + image + '">;
Where path is the directory and image is the filename. Path does end
with /. Currently it will just give 404 errors even when I have
confirmed that there is such a file in that directory.
Am I missing something? Does HTML not allow you to navigate from the
root directory?
Your web server presents the files based from a web root directory.
So if your website is in /home/stuff/stuff the webserver does the following translation:
/index.html -> /home/stuff/stuff/index.html
/images/image1.png -> /home/stuff/stuff/image1.png
/tmp/ -> /home/stuff/stuff/tmp/
To do otherwise would be a massive security risk, allowing any online user to pull arbitrary files from your system.
There are a few possible solutions to this, what is best will depend on your situation.
You can map web paths to different paths on thy system
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#alias
You can symlink the directories holding your images into the webroot. Ensure that you allow the webserver to follow symlinks.
https://superuser.com/questions/244245/how-do-i-get-apache-to-follow-symlinks
You can also hard link the files to exist in the webroot, you can use a serverside scripting language, or simply move the files.
I want to learn AngularJs from http://www.tutorialspoint.com/angularjs
but an example must be deployed a server. I don't know anything about it.
Please give me some hint about deploy .htm extension file to a server.
Example url is following;
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/angularjs/angularjs_includes.htm
I believe that they just mean placing the files somewhere inside the web root. The web root should be deployed by your local or remote server.
Example:
Download and install MAMP.
Set your root directory as the MAMP root directory in preferences.
Now you can use your own paths -- just follow the example in the link you provided.
https://www.mamp.info/en/
Also, I'm of the opinion that it's good practice to at least use a local web server as opposed to running your website without one.
You don't need a webserver to test the code given in that example. ng-include using relative paths works fine.
However, if you really want to use a webserver for other examples/projects, depending upon your OS, you can use *AMP. where * means
W for windows
L for linux
once you have it installed, place the files in www folder. and access it in browser using http://localhost
Firstly I add my app folder under
D:\tomcat7\apache-tomcat-7.0.67-windows-x64\apache-tomcat-7.0.67\webapps
after I run tomcat server .
And run
http://localhost:8080/an/ht.htm
It is working :) Thanks #ketchupisred #Mridul Kashyap
I can't realize how to load a video located on my Desktop on a front-end code I have in my localhost runing on apache2.
I tried: file:///localhost/home/Desktop/video.mp4 , but It doesn't work because for sure, I'm not right.
Thanks!
file protocol loads local files, first you have to use the http protocol, then apache will look for files in your document root directory so all paths will be relative to the document root, so first you have to set the correct document root, then use the correct protocol.
it would be like http://localhost/video.mp4
We have a web proyect in Coldfusion. All resources are linked with absolute paths, I mean, the paths in the css are like this:
.class {background:url(/folder/img/image.png);}
And the paths in the HTML are like this:
<img src="/folder/img/theimage.png"/>
I need to download the files to my local machine, make the changes and upload them again.
To see the changes, I manually remove all the slashes in the downloaded files, then write it again, but I think that should be an easier way to see the pages correctly without make those changes.
Can I put the resources folder in some place to make the absolute path find them?
If that's not the correct way, how can I "see" the files in my local machine (without a localhost) without changing the absolute path once and once again?
Do your local development on a computer with a web server that is configured to be as close to the web server you use in production as possible.
Using a virtual machine (such as VMWare or VirtualBox) makes this easier.
Most modern dev. platforms have HTTP servers that are easy to set up. My favorite has always been Python's. Running it is as simple as cding to your project directory and running one Python command. You can also easily run multiple servers concurrently on different ports.
Here are some examples with Python v. 2.7.
# run server on port 9999
> python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9999
# run server as background process on port 3333
> nohup python -m SimpleHTTPServer 3333 > /dev/null &
Python 3 has a different syntax, but same idea. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/set_up_a_local_testing_server