Style problem with relative paths

jeff_j_dunlap · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 21

Dear forum members:

I am having some relative path problems in IE but not in Firefox. I created rewrite rules and I am able to navigate to any of the forums and topics without problems.

When I do go into a topic (using IE) the theme messes up. It seems that it cannot 'see' the css or the images because of the non-existent path (see 'boxing-forum' in the URLs below) that Advanced-SEO creates. The style is not based on prosilver Sad

In IE:
-http://127.0.0.1/boxing-forum/Rodriguez-Marquez-Match-t4.html
(here's a bad image URL)
-http://127.0.0.1/boxing-forum/download/file.php?id=1

In Firefox:
-http://127.0.0.1/boxing-forum/Rodriguez-Marquez-Match-t4.html
(good image URL)
-http://127.0.0.1/download/file.php?id=1

This is pretty confusing to me.

1) Is Advanced SEO supposed to create absolute paths to my images and icons?
or
2) Am I supposed to set absolute paths to all images and icons?
or
3) Am I supposed to create a Regular Expression that removes the forum from the path (i.e. 'boxing-forum')?

Any suggestions welcome,

Jeff

jeff_j_dunlap · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 21

Now that I've spent a few hours looking at this, I'm pretty sure that the answer for each of the 3 questions above is 'no'.

I'd like to also post an html (view source snippet) of the image files that are not appearing. Please note that the source is good:

<img src="./styles/Tranquility/imageset/en/button_topic_reply.gif" alt="Reply to topic" title="Reply to topic" />

<img src="./download/file.php?id=1&sid=d5e58dec7c1c9f2e92a6ecb2fc8f9fc1" alt="0_61_Fighters_320.jpg" />

Choosing the properties for an image in Firefox CORRECTLY shows the URL as:
-http://127.0.0.1/download/file.php?id=1

Choosing the properties for an image in IE INCORRECTLY shows the URL as:
-http://127.0.0.1/boxing-forum/download/file.php?id=1

Very, very weird...it must be that I have some bad html somewhere else and firefox handles it and IE doesn't.

SeO

Since it's a custom profile, make sure you implemented all the code changes required in it too. The one that is handling the paths is the {SEO_BASE_HREF} one.

That's how we deal with virtual folder, by assigning the physical path to the base href tag.

So, if it's working with FF and not with IE, it could be because of IE's cache in case you properly modded the style, try clearing it, IE could still be using the old code.

jeff_j_dunlap · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 21

jeff_j_dunlap · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 21

Dear SeO:

My problem was that I butchered Shocked

my php files. I basically went back and restored the files from the Advanced SEO directories and the problem was solved.

Best regards,

Jeff

P.S. The generated html really did look fine by the way, except that IE didn't like it of course. Looking at the response using WFetch, I noticed that it has some ascii characters prefixing the response. That is the only weird thing that I saw, and I guess that it happened by me messing up the PHP files.

SeO

You may just added some non utf-8 chars by mistake while editing some tpls and or language files. FF is a bit more flexible on this type of mistakes than IE.