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Asked: 2026-05-13T15:18:16+00:00

I am writing a html file under ~/public_html on our server. I would like

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I am writing a html file under ~/public_html on our server. I would like to refer to other files under ~/public_html in the html file. I now only know how to specify the path to those files (like pictures) via relative path from the html file. But I would like to know if there is a way to specify the absolute path? Because sometimes I will move the html file under ~/public_html, so the relative path from the html file to those files might not hold any longer.

Thanks and regards!

Update:

Thanks! I still not quite get how to do it. For example,

if on the linux server, I have ~/public_html/doc/doc1.html and ~/public_html/pic/pic1.jpg. I would like to refer to pic1.jpg in the doc1.html. I can just write “../pic/pic1.jpg”. How I can access doc1.html from outside via link http://www.xxx.xxx/~tim/doc/doc1.html and the picture can be loaded correctly.

But if later I move doc1.html to ~/public_html/doc_old/doc1.html, the relative path from doc1.html to pic1.jpg will not hold any longer. I just wonder if I could specify some absolute path for pic1.jpg in doc1.html for external accessing?

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  1. Editorial Team

    An absolute path can be specified by beginning the path with a forward slash (/). This will allow you to refer to documents underneath your document root.

    Here is a link to an article on absolute vs. relative paths in HTML.

    Edit: in response to your update – the reason you can access pic1.jpg as ../pic/pic1.jpg from doc1.html is that doc1.html lives in /doc/, so moving up one directory and then down into pic will bring you to pic1.jpg. Similarly, since your document root is ~/public_html/, you can access pic1.jpg as /pic/pic1.jpg from any html file. /pic will be interpreted as ~public_html/pic/.

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