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1. drekonus
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   My question is how to have "./" interpreted correctly using when using custom permalinks option /%postname%/ ?

   I'm using apache 2.2 and in wordpress, the permalinks custom option with /%postname%/ and it is correctly generating the navigation and page urls. However it seems the "./" in my href links is being interpreted relative to the page I am linking from (currently viewing) as opposed to the document or site root. For example if I am on the history page under the about section of the site:

   http://localhost/about/history

   and I have a link in the content to navigate from the history page to the staff page:

   link to staff page

   the "./" is being interpreted as "http://localhost/about" as opposed to just "http://localhost" where, when mousing over the link it reads:

   http://localhost/about/about/staff

   Same happens if I try to create a link to another part of the site. from this same history - http://localhost/about/history - page:

   link to staff page

   the "./" is interpreted as:

   http://localhost/about

   thus making the link read on mouse over:

   http://localhost/about/news/articles"

   as opposed to

   http://localhost/news/articles"

   What need be done to get that "./" to be interpreted as the top level wordpress directory as opposed to it being interpreted as one navigational level above the currently viewed document?

2. Joseph
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Root directory is just a slash, no dot. "./" means relative to the current directory.

   See http://www.webreference.com/html/tutorial2/3.html

3. drekonus
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I know what you're thinking, as I thought the same thing and tried that long time ago. Problem was that if to use just the slash "/", the absence of the dot causes the link to be measured down from the current page. I understand what you're saying, and I tried that where, if in the http://localhost/about/staff, I have a link using:

   href="/news/articles"

   the link is then interpreted as

   "http://localhost/about/staff/news/articles"

   where again the beginning of the url, the "/", is being interpreted not as "http://localhost" but rather "http://localhost/about/staff".

   I am pretty sure this has some to do with a combination of my apache configuration files and what wordpress is actually doing under the covers to implement permalinking using "/%postname%/"

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