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  • Jim Rendant
    #1

    Paths question

    I am having a problem with programming in perl using paths to style sheets
    and other static pages. I need a little clarification

    My scenario

    root directory | - /var/www
    html directory | - /html FULL PATH - /var/www/html
    images dir | - /images -
    /var/www/html/images
    cgi-bin dir | - /cgi-bin -
    /var/www/cgi-bin
    perl scripts dir | -/perl -
    /var/www/cgi-bin/perl

    The PERL directory holds programs that create pages on the fly by reading
    both dynamic data and snippets of the final html page. The page is assembled
    by reading a snippet file and then inserting dynamic data and reading
    another snippet. I PRINT the snippet to Standard Out which is the web page
    itself.

    My CSS page is stored in my /var/www/html directory. In my HTML text stored
    in the /var/www/cgi-bin/perl, I use the statement:

    <link href="html/base.css" rel="stylesheet " type="text/css">

    Since normally everything is relative to the base directory "/var/www" I
    would think that it should work but it does not.
    If I use the full path it cant find the file
    "/var/www/var/www/html/base.css" Which shows that it append the full path
    name to the base directory.

    How can I programmaticall y specify the path to my CSS sheets and for that
    matter my images when I use them?

    Thanks in advance


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    • Gunnar Hjalmarsson
      #2
      Re: Paths question

      Jim Rendant wrote:[color=blue]
      > I am having a problem with programming in perl using paths to style
      > sheets and other static pages. I need a little clarification[/color]

      <snip>
      [color=blue]
      > <link href="html/base.css" rel="stylesheet " type="text/css">[/color]
      --------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      That shall be a URL, not a path on your file system. I would guess
      "/base.css" or whatever you would type in the location bar of your
      browser in order to read the style sheet.

      --
      Gunnar Hjalmarsson
      Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

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        • m
          #3
          Re: Paths question

          Jim Rendant wrote:
          [color=blue]
          > <link href="html/base.css" rel="stylesheet " type="text/css">[/color]

          The problem may be that you're missing the correct address of
          the link, but maybe not:

          <link...> in generated pages doesn't always result in the link
          being loaded into the page by the browser. Try sucking the CSS file
          into a variable and writing it into the <head> of the HTML file between
          <style> tags.
          HTH
          m
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          http://www.mbstevens.com/
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            • Gunnar Hjalmarsson
              #4
              Re: Paths question

              m wrote:[color=blue]
              > <link...> in generated pages doesn't always result in the link
              > being loaded into the page by the browser.[/color]

              That has never happened to me. Can you give us an example that
              illustrates what you are saying?

              Of course, the CSS file must be located in a directory that is
              readable from the web. If it's not, it won't be loaded, but that would
              be the case both with a generated and a static page.

              --
              Gunnar Hjalmarsson
              Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

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                • m
                  #5
                  Re: Paths question

                  Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:[color=blue]
                  > m wrote:
                  >[color=green]
                  >> <link...> in generated pages doesn't always result in the link
                  >> being loaded into the page by the browser.[/color]
                  >
                  >
                  > That has never happened to me. Can you give us an example that
                  > illustrates what you are saying?
                  >
                  > Of course, the CSS file must be located in a directory that is readable
                  > from the web. If it's not, it won't be loaded, but that would be the
                  > case both with a generated and a static page.[/color]

                  Thanks for spurring me on to further testing of this, Gunnar.
                  After running some tests over the past hour or so, I believe you
                  are right. Don't know what I was doing wrong in my other programs,
                  perhaps forgot to set the base address. At any rate, this promises to
                  simplify a couple of my programs considerably.

                  Cheers,
                  m

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                    • Gunnar Hjalmarsson
                      #6
                      Re: Paths question

                      m wrote:[color=blue]
                      > this promises to simplify a couple of my programs considerably.[/color]

                      Glad to be able to help. :)

                      --
                      Gunnar Hjalmarsson
                      Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl

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