[RESOLVED] Internal Page Links

[Nightwalker83]

Hi,

It has been awhile since I have created a html website and the internal page to page links are causing me no end of trouble. On the index page I have

<a href="php/enter.php" title="Enter Data">Enter Data</a><a href="php/view.php">View Data</a><a href="php/browse.php" title="Browse Data">Browse Data</a><a href="php/search.php" title="Search">Search</a></body></html>

and all those pages are located in the php folder, yet, the only links that redirects correctly are those for the entry and browse pages. Both the view page and search page report this as the address as oppose to "view.php" and "search.php".

 URL /job1/php/index.php 

Also, on the sub pages located in the php folder I have

<a href="../index.php" title="Home">Home</a><a href="../php/enter.php" title="Enter Data">Enter Data</a><a href="../php/browse.php" title="Browse Data">Browse Data</a><a href="../php/search.php" title="Data Search">Search</a>

Yet, the only "Home" link that works is the "Enter Data" page despite all the sub pages having the same links... Also, the across page links do not work either so I ca not browse from sub page to sub page despite trying both the above code and also

 <a href="../index.php" title="Home">Home</a><a href="enter.php" title="Enter Data">Enter Data</a><a href="browse.php" title="Browse Data">Browse Data</a><a href="search.php" title="Data Search">Search</a>

Thanks,


Nightwalker

[tr333]

Check your directory structure. Based on your post, I see it as this:

.
├── index.php
└── php
    ├── browse.php
    ├── enter.php
    ├── search.php
    └── view.php

Is that correct?

For your subpages, I'm assuming they are in the php subfolder. You should be able to remove the "../php/" from the links in that case.

[Nightwalker83]

For your subpages, I'm assuming they are in the php subfolder. You should be able to remove the "../php/" from the links in that case.

As I mentioned above I have already tried that however, now for some of the pages it appears to be working as it would but for others I receive

Not Found

The requested URL /job1/php/index.php was not found on this server.

[tr333]

Hmmmm...

without looking at the files I can't say much. The 404 error is just saying that the webserver can't find the file index.php at http://example.com/job1/php/index.php. I can only suggest checking the webserver/php logs, and re-checking the directory structure against your links. Perhaps you could also try putting the full URL into the href and go from there?

Sorry I can't be of more help than that.

[techgnome]

doesn't ".." mean the current folder?... so a file in the php folder should only be going ../file.php ... OR if you want to include the php directory, start from the root: /php/file.php

your hrefs should look like this:
/index.php
/php/browse.php
/php/enter.php
/php/search.php
/php/view.php

this is why I try not to use relative links unless anchored to the root...

-tg

[tr333]

doesn't ".." mean the current folder?... so a file in the php folder should only be going ../file.php ... OR if you want to include the php directory, start from the root: /php/file.php

your hrefs should look like this:
/index.php
/php/browse.php
/php/enter.php
/php/search.php
/php/view.php

this is why I try not to use relative links unless anchored to the root...

-tg

Single . is current directory, while double .. is the previous directory going up the tree.

I agree that relative links just cause too many problems. I don't know much about php but I would be surprised if it didn't have some function/feature to write out full links for a given relative url?

[Nightwalker83]

without looking at the files I can't say much.

At the moment I am just using WAMP to view the files.

[Nightwalker83]

I think it was because I didn't immediately save the pages after creating them but edited them then saved them after a while! I created a new new and saved it straight away and it worked without problems.