Question

How do I reference a file outside my web site’s root directory?

For example my website is located at C:\dev\TestSite
I am using ASP.NET with XSP. The webapp will be deployed on Apache using mod_mono.
I have images in C:\images and I would like to do this:

<img src="C:\images\logo.gif"/>

Answer 1

Your img tag’s src value is going to be sent to the client. You need to specify those paths relative to your document root. Your best bet is to set up a virtual folder (in IIS, alias is the apache equivalent) to point to the c:\images path and then change the mentioned tag src path as follows

<img src="/images/logo.gif" />

To do this in apache, you need an alias in your httpd.conf. The line looks like this

Alias /images c:/images

Here’s the docs http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#alias