I have a website at http://myserver/project1.
'myserver' is a Windows Server 2003 server with IIS6.
'project1' is a virtual directory (the physical path of which is C:\myprojects\project1.
I have read that the best way to link to an external stylesheet (for example) is to use a forward slash, e.g. <link href="/style.css">, as I would also like to link to this stylesheet from a subfolder of the virtual directory.
I would expect this to look for the css file in http://myserver/project1/, but it seems to be looking in http://myserver/. I know this because typing <link href="/project1/style.css"> works.
I am guessing it's normal for http://myserver/ to be considered the 'website root' as this is the 'Default Website' (in IIS terms). What I would like to know is if there a way to (either via IIS or PHP) to change this so that I can write paths in the format /style.css and have the virtual directory find them.
Many thanks
If I am understanding you, on non Windows systems I think I would approach this with a symbolic link or simply checking out the common directories for each domain. You can't use a relative link path like you show to include across a domain. File system path vs your server URI is apples and oranges. Maybe take a look at Mklink. This post might also be helpful.
Now more I think about this doesn't IIS6 just provide a simple way in the GUI to add (maybe they call them virtual directories?) multiple folders into the domain. This SO post might be pretty close to your question: How do I resolve absolute URLs for different sites in the same parent IIS virtual directory in .NET?