[Xitami] how to configure alias

[d.butt]

I'm testing things localy on my pc not on the host server and when I go
insert an imasge from the image folder it goes back 3 levels as so
<IMG SRC="../../../images/bevel_bg.jpg" BORDER="0" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="40"
ALIGN="bottom" ALT="">
now al I want is to confige the alias to read any images from this folder on
my c:drive
is this correct if not can you give the correct configuration
images=c:\images\        http://127.0.0.1/c:/images/.gif/.jpg./.png


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon McVittie" <sjm212@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] how to configure alias


> > I'm using xitami under win98 and I've been playing with some esp.
> > scripts http://www.escapade.org  these scriptslive in the cgi-bin, but
> > the images live in a directory outside the cgi-bin
> > http://localhost/cgi-bin/esp.exe?PAGE=abcwebsite2.esp like so, but any
> > images which are part of the script don't show in the browser when
> > called using relative url's in the script.
> > E.G. this renders a place holder and no imge in the browser
> > <IMG SRC="../../../images/bevel_bg.jpg" BORDER="0" WIDTH="150"
> > HEIGHT="40" ALIGN="bottom" ALT="">
>
> This URL means "start from the current folder /cgi-bin/ (because the SRC
> doesn't start with "/"), go up 3 levels (../../../), go into the images/
> folder, and get bevel_bg.jpg". You can't go up 3 levels from /cgi-bin/
> because when you go up 1 level you get to the root folder, /, and you
can't
> go up a level again from /; so you certainly can't go up 2 levels!
>
> I'd suggest replacing all your image paths with something like
> SRC="/espimages/bevel_bg.jpg" which will go to the server root, then go
> into an espimages/ subfolder, then download bevel_bg.jpg; then put your
> images in an espimages subfolder of your web pages root (e.g.
> c:\xitami\webpages\espimages on a default install). (Xitami uses the
images
> subdirectory already, for its own built-in images like the directory
> listing icons)
>
> If you insist on using relative URLs, remember that they all have to be
> relative to where your CGI script is, i.e. relative to the cgi-bin folder.
>
> Also remember that they're URLs and not file paths: if your cgi-bin is in
> c:\xitami\cgi-bin, you can't get to c:\images with ../../images/ - the "up
> one level" is handled by the user's Web browser, which has no idea where
> stuff is on your hard disk.
>
> I realise this isn't particularly clear, so here's a silly example:
>
> Suppose your server is set up with an alias for /docs/, as follows:
>
> - / points to c:\xitami\webpages, like the default setup
> - /cgi-bin/ points to c:\xitami\cgi-bin, again like the default setup
> - /docs/ points to d:\my documents\public_html
>
> Suppose you're looking at this site in a Web browser, and you're looking
at
> http://myserver/docs/MyPlanToTakeOverTheWorld.html. When you go to this
> page, Xitami will look up what /docs/ means and return the contents of
> d:\my documents\public_html\MyPlanToTakeOverTheWorld.html. If this file
> contains a hyperlink to "../MoreRanting.html", you might expect that to
> mean d:\my documents\MoreRanting.html.
>
> However, the ../ is resolved by the web browser, not the server. All the
> web browser knows is that it's at a server called http://myserver, in a
> folder called /docs/, looking at HereIsARant.html. So, it takes the
current
> folder (/docs/), goes up one level (to /), and downloads MoreRanting.html
> from that folder - that's http://myserver/MoreRanting.html.
>
> Xitami looks up what / means, looks for a file called MoreRanting.html,
and
> dutifully returns c:\xitami\webpages\MoreRanting.html.
>
> This is good, because it means there's no way a web browser can get at
> documents in folders you haven't specifically added to the server. For
> example, if it worked the way you seem to have assumed, the browser could
> request http://myserver/../defaults.aut and get c:\xitami\defaults.aut.
> This would be bad, because defaults.aut is a list of usernames and
> passwords for the password-protected pages on your server, if you have
> any... don't worry though, this doesn't actually happen.
>
> For the same reason, to get a hyperlink to something you've stored in
> webpages from a script in cgi-bin, you just go "../something" or
> "/something", not "../webpages/something" - and to get from webpages to
> cgi-bin, you just go "cgi-bin" and not "../cgi-bin" (this would make no
> sense because you're already at the root as far as a web browser is
> concerned, so you can't go up any further).
>
>
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