Re: creating absolute links (including site)

Ok, I will have to try it out later!
I have Apache virtual host pointing to my applications webroot, which
is why I don't see a problem, even if I change the virtual host to
point to the application directory or the root directory.
Thanks for the info, enjoy,
John

On Dec 29, 4:38 pm, euromark <dereurom...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> the url may either be an array or a link
>
> well its fairly easy
> if you havewww.domain.de/myapp/... via mod_rewrite mapped to /myapp/
> webroot/
>
> if you use $html->url() or link() you get /myapp/controller/action
>
> now - include this link in the $html->link() again, you get /myapp/
> myapp/controller/action
> which of course results in 404s
>
> so never use them inside each other if you are working relatively to
> root (http://... full urls would work)
> even if you are working directly at top level - it would still be
> wrong as it would break as soon as you change the environment or try
> it out locally with localhost/... etc
>
> On 29 Dez., 13:51, John Andersen <j.andersen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I just tried to move my document root away from the application
> > webroot, nothing was added to the url, it looks exactly like it always
> > do! Can you give an example of when the url will include additional
> > folders?
>
> > In your example, what is the content of the $url variable?
>
> > Enjoy,
> >    John
>
> > On Dec 29, 2:25 pm, euromark <dereurom...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > actually its even way easiert!
>
> > > $html->link($url, TRUE)
>
> > > does the trick
>
> > > the above solution from john might even be wrong in some cases
> > > (if you're not at the top level of your domain, it adds the folders to
> > > the webroot twice...)
>
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