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relative links

Last post 03-23-2005, 11:10 AM by Adam. 11 replies.


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03-16-2005, 5:12 PM 4715

Justin_H
Joined on 03-09-2005
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relative links

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I have a website that uses this editor and I want to be able to move this website to other servers easily. How when i click the insert (file / image / media) buttons can i make it put a more generic link in. Currently the links this creates are /VirtualDirectory/other/directory/structure/.../myfile.zip How can i set it up so the links it makes are of a changing virtual directory?

btw any progress on this?

03-16-2005, 5:26 PM 4716 in reply to 4715

Adam
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Re: relative links

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Justin,

Hope this article may help:

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03-18-2005, 10:48 AM 4793 in reply to 4716

Justin_H
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Re: relative links

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I'm afraid that even with use realtive links turned on it still includes the base directory

i.e if my form with the editor is here c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mywebsite\coolforms\formwithEditor.aspx
and i need a link to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mywebsite\file\coolfile.doc

the editor will insert the link as \mywebsite\file\coolfile.doc - I don't want it to include the "mywebsite" directory...

any ideas?

03-18-2005, 11:00 AM 4794 in reply to 4793

Adam
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Re: relative links

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Make sure you set the Editor.UseRelativeLinks property and Editor.RemoveServerNamesFromUrl property to true.

03-18-2005, 12:48 PM 4801 in reply to 4794

Justin_H
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I do :(
worse yet I can't even correct it in the html view becuase it just changes the links that I type in :(

03-18-2005, 1:03 PM 4803 in reply to 4801

Adam
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Re: relative links

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By default Internet Explorer converts all URLs in hyperlinks (anchor tags) and images (img tags) to absolute URLs with the hostname name. When RemoveServerNamesFromUrl property is set to true (the default), CuteEditor strips out the local server name from all A and IMG tags if the hostname in the URL matches the current hostname.

03-18-2005, 1:54 PM 4805 in reply to 4803

Justin_H
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Re: relative links

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I have both properties set to true.

In the cuteEditor in html mode if i have a link and i set it to "../../files/myfile.zip" the editor will modify it into /myVirtualDirectory/files/myfile.zip

can this be avoided?

03-18-2005, 2:40 PM 4806 in reply to 4805

Adam
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Let’s try this.

1. Click the insert link button.
3.
In the URL field, if the path is relative path (../somelink), after postback, you will get a relative path.
In the URL field, if the path is absolute path, after postback, you will get an absolute path.

Hope it helps.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

03-23-2005, 9:14 AM 4906 in reply to 4806

Justin_H
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Re: relative links

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I still cannot get this to work. Imagine two identical websites pulling content from the same database. I need relative links the two sites use different virtual directories. I'm sure this is not an appropriate or recommended way to have a setup, but that is not at issue. I cannot get your control to leave my html alone long enough to get a relative link. I've giving typing html into the html mode as that gets changed, so using the insert document button i type in a relative link ie ../../file/myfile.zip and behold after saving to the database the link is no longer relative it has magically become /myvirtualdirectory/file/myfile.zip is there something in the configuration I can change to get the control to leave my code alone?

03-23-2005, 9:53 AM 4909 in reply to 4806

Adam
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Re: relative links

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Please try the steps in the following link:

http://cutesoft.net/example/general.aspx

1. Click the insert link button.
2.
In the URL field, if the path is relative path (../somelink), after postback, you will get a relative path. (Please don't switch to HTML view!)
In the URL field, if the path is absolute path, after postback, you will get an absolute path.

03-23-2005, 11:00 AM 4913 in reply to 4909

Justin_H
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So what your saying is switching to html view is waht is messing up my links? well that is very unfortunate because switching to html view is necessary more often than it should be. Say perhaps that the first bit of html on a page is my header ...content of page. If you then go to the normal view select all the text and change the font, you get my header...content of page</span so you must go to the html mode to fix the problem. So unless every time i edit a page i remember that i must change the links last it won't work. That is a big headache and something i'm barely capable of remembering and something my users certainly aren't. Also if i right click on a link in normal mode I have no idea how to change it in the menu there is Link and under that properties which is where i assume i could change the link, but that doesn't seem to do anything?

So basically what i'm saying is under the current version of the control I don't think avoiding the html tab is practicle, and i'm still wondering if there is a way to turn off the automatic changes or not?

03-23-2005, 11:10 AM 4914 in reply to 4913

Adam
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When you switch to HTML View, Internet Explorer converts all URLs in hyperlinks (anchor tags) and images (img tags) to absolute URLs with the hostname name automatically.

When RemoveServerNamesFromUrl property is set to true (the default), CuteEditor strips out the local server name from all A and IMG tags if the hostname in the URL matches the current hostname on the server side.

For example:

Case 1: Switching to HTML view

1. You type a relative link ../data/summer.aspx in the design view

2. When switch to HTML view, Internet Explorer will convert it to http://somsitenname/somedirectoy/data/summer.aspx automatically.

3. When RemoveServerNamesFromUrl property is set to true (the default), after the post back, Cute Editor can convert it to /somedirectoy/data/summer.aspx

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Case 2: Not Switching to HTML view

3. After the post back, you will get a relative path ../data/summer.aspx

Hope it helps.