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Posted by Harlan Messinger on 11/20/07 19:25
John Salerno wrote:
> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>
>> How can this have worked before? If, previously, your pages were
>> directly under gestalt.johnjsal.com, then the ".." would have referred
>> to a nonexistent parent directory.
>>
>> As for now, the ".." would take you up to the parent of the gestalt
>> directory, but perhaps the web server has been configured (for
>> security reasons) not to allow use of the parent operator "..".
>
> Well, the link was gestalt.johnjsal.com, but I guess that was just an
> alias for www.johnjsal.com/gestalt, because the directory structure was
> the same as it is now.
If before your pages were under gestalt.johnjsal.com and now they are
under www.johnjsal.com/gestalt, then the directory structure was not the
same as it is now because before your pages were in the root and now
they are one directory down. I think your point is that *within* your
pages the structure is the same, or even that they haven't even been
moved within the server's physical directory structure, but that's
beside the point. What matters is the logical *website* structure. If
you previously navigated to http://gestalt.johnjsal.com/x.y and that's
the address that continued to appear in the browser's address field
after the page loaded, then that means that there *was* no parent
directory: the root doesn't have a parent directory. This technically
made ".." meaningless. At best, the web server would have treated the
root as its own parent--but that *isn't* the case now: with your pages
one level down, the parent directory is the root directory, which is now
*different* from the directory containing the pages.
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