How do I write URLs for use on a CD?

liunx · Jan 10, 2008

I would like to put my website on a CD and would like to know how to place the URLs in an "A HREF" tag without using a drive letter (since CD drives use different letters depending on configuration). I've tried using file:///filepath (I didn't substitute anything for the drive letter in the filepath - don't know what to substitute) and it doesn't work. I'm using WindowsXP; if the method is different for different versions of windows, please let me know. 
 
Thanks! 
 
Chrisif the whole site's going to be on the cd then just use links like: 
 
<a href=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"page1.html">page 1</a> 
 
and for higher directeries 
 
<a href=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"../page1.html">page 1</a>Thanks, but I knew to use the short links on equivalent directories and how to shorten them for directories deeper than the one the link is in. What I need to know is how to structure the link for directories above the one the link is in, for instance: 
 
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.kingdomspress.com">http://www.kingdomspress.com</a> 
 
is my website. It has in it a page called: 
 
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/b/index.html">http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/b/index.html</a> 
 
If I am on that page and I want to go to the page at: 
 
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/index.html">http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/index.html</a> 
 
I need to know how to do that on CD without using a drive letter. 
 
Thanks! 
 
Chrison <a class="postlink" href="http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/b/index.html">http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/b/index.html</a> 
to get to <a class="postlink" href="http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/index.html">http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/index.html</a> 
<a href=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"../index.html">link</a> 
 
to get to <a class="postlink" href="http://www.kingdomspress.com/index.html">http://www.kingdomspress.com/index.html</a> 
<a href=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"../../index.html">link</a>Using relative links as incawarrior says is the best way because some peoples cdrom drive letters are different - i.e. if they have more hard drives.Okay, sorry, let me make sure I understand... 
 
The two dots and slash ../ take you up one level? Sorry I've always read a couple of dots as meaning "put whatever in this spot." 
 
Thanks a bunch! 
 
ChrisThere are two directory entries that are often hidden in file system lists. 
 
. is the current directory 
.. is the parent directory 
 
cd .. will take you up on directory level (unless you're in the root

Thank you to everyone who replied! Unfortunately, I still have another question about the relative links, or how to otherwise do the below links for use on a stand-alone CD: 
 
If I am on the page 
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/b/index.html">http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/b/index.html</a> 
 
and I have a link to a page at 
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/p/index.html">http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/p/index.html</a> 
 
how would I do that? I would need to back up a level and then go down another tree. 
 
If there is no relative way to do this, I think there should be some absolute way to code it - a couple of years ago I worked somewhere where someone knew how to do this (and did), but I don't remember how it was done now. 
 
Thanks again! 
 
ChrisIf I am on the page 
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/b/index.html">http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/b/index.html</a> 
 
and I have a link to a page at 
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/p/index.html">http://www.kingdomspress.com/10k/p/index.html</a> 
 
how would I do that? I would need to back up a level and then go down another tree. 
 
 
"../p/index.html" 
 
You're in b. "../" says 'up a level' so now you're in 10k. Now "p/" takes you down into p to retrieve index.html.I don't know if it will be useful (and it probably won't in the least), but if you want to try to avoid too much relative linking, you can use '/' as the root of the drive. 
 
E.g., "/10k/p/index.html" would take you to the index file under 'p' no matter where you are. 
 
(And you probably didn't need to know that; sorry if I'm interfering!)Wow 2 users called 
 
pneumaticat 
patenaudemat 
 
i thought it was the same person! Anyway; relating back to the topic, what patenaudemat says is correct and takes you back to the root directory.The problem with rooting it with "/xxx/yy" is that the resulting "file/web" site HAS to be copied to a root directory. Using purely relative links allows the result to be grouped with others under some organizational structure at the discretion of the user.Hi - 
(Pre-S. - Sorry for the length & possible utter simplicity of this tip!!) 
Try organizing your files as such: 
 
1. one main DIR/folder on your desktop - wherever is superhandy, titled: " ___ site". 
This is where you put *everything* to do with the site; it's contents are what will be burned onto the CD. 
location = siteROOT/ 
 
2. if your site is *huge*, make a dir within the above for each "logical section" of it. 
[i.e. "forum"] 
location = siteROOT/forum 
its pages are now referred to as - 
= siteROOT/forum/pg1.html 
 
BUT, be sure to leave index.html, default.html (whatever) ON ITS OWN within the "___ site"ROOT/. 
 
3. if loads of images per DIR - give several images folders suffixes_names for the matching section of the site. [2.] But don't put them in those separate folders!! 
Leave all the images___ DIRs in the MAIN ___site DIR! 
location = siteROOT/images_forum/imagename.ext 
& referred to in the html docs as - 
="/images_forum/imagename.ext" 
[a *relative* path, with the siteROOT NOT explicitly stated - which solves the drive letter: issue] 
 
4. be sure to add any external .css sheets into the same DIR as the siteROOT/section that they match. [2.] That way, you're linking from your page to a file in the same location. 
href=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"filename.css" /> 
 
5. change the current links in your pages with a text editor's 'replace all' to go with the new structure: 
- - - - - - - 
a] Since all of the site is now contained in a main DIR: "___ site" - or siteROOT - just burn the contents of that folder *NOT the folder, itself* onto the CD. [after testing thoroughly, of course!] 
 
b] You already know of the differences between: 
• local computer doc tree 
• a server root/doc tree 
•   & URL's 
- yes? 
 
b] Well, think of the cd-rom [drive letter:] as your - 
/home/user/public_html »DIR & 
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.sitename.dom">http://www.sitename.dom</a> »LOCATION 
 
c] Now, from ANY drive letter, you should be able to have working links to your files as stated above. Re-cap: 
= "index.html" [since in SAME DIR as ROOT] & its stylesheet would be in the siteROOT with it, so: 
href=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"name.css" /> 
anything linked from the index.html: 
= "/forum/pg.html" or 
= "images_suffix/filename.ext" 
 
Once into another page, it would link back to the index as: 
= "/index.html" & to its own images = "/images_location/name.ext" 
And finally (whew!) the .css for each page would be same as the index one naming - since they're in same loc. as their DIR. 
[If only ONE CSS - just put in siteROOT & refer to it same way...] 
 
Egads, 
ElJust want to thank all the people that replied. 
 
THANK YOU!!!!!!! 
 
Chris

How do I write URLs for use on a CD?

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