David,
Yes, I understand how relative paths work.
The problem is that the jsp include directives:
- include an html page that is *not* in the same directory as the jsp
page;
- the relative links in the included html file are supposed to be
relative to their own directory not the directory of the JSP.
eg:
/foo/bar/index.jsp
/foo/some-page.html
index.jsp contains
<jsp:forward page="../some-page.html" />
This doesn't work; a link "images/foo.jpg" in some-page.html ends up
being /foo/bar/images/foo.jpg instead of /foo/images/foo.jpg.
Lloyd
On Apr 25, 2008, at 12:40 PM, David kerber wrote:
DIGLLOYD INC wrote:
I previously asked about remapping URLs and got some helpful
responses. In a nutshell, this was recommended:
http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/
Looks very good for some purposes.
But I also want to solve a much simpler problem--
I have a very large amount of static content (articles), with each
article in its own directory. A main Table of Contents links to
the start page in each directory, which is *not* index.html (eg
some-main-page.html). I don't want to rename or change those pages
as they have world-wide direct links to them--they have to stay as-
is. But I do want to insert an index.jsp page without altering any
content.
For many of these folders inserting a trival index.jsp solves the
index-page problem:
<%@ include file="the-main-page.html" %>
(though I do wonder if google consider this unacceptable duplicate
content)
My pages all use relative links eg "..", "./", etc. So this works
***when the page being included is in the same directory**.
But when the include page is in another directory, none of the
relative links work. None of these variants do the right thing;
any referenced images cannot be found.
<%@ include file="../ReviewInfo.html" %>
<jsp:include file="../ReviewInfo.html" %>
<jsp:forward page="../some-other-page.html" />
The jsp:forward directive seems perfect, but the flaw of not
changing the current location (eg no "cd" is done first) makes it
useless for this purpose. Or does it? Is there something I'm
missing here?
Alternately, is there some other trivial solution?
URL-rewriting is not appropriate in this case; there is no
particular pattern, just a fair number of specific cases. I was
hoping for a simple 1-line index.jsp in each directory.
Your examples may be simplified from the real thing, but remember
what the .'s mean: a single one means the current folder, and a
double means the parent of the current folder. So get into another
directory at the same level (both subfolders of the same parent
folder), you need to go up with the double dot, and then back down
into the other folder. For example, if you are in folder B, which
is a subfolder of A, and you want to get into C, which is also a
subfolder of A, you need to do: ../C/myotherpage.html.
HTH
D
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