Question

I have got this link echoed in php:

echo "<a href='$appUrl' class='link-wrapper'></a>";

$appUrl gives me this:

http://example.com/cams2/cam3

I am at url before clicking the link:

http://example.com/cams1

The links html is this:

<a href="cams2/cam3/" class="link-wrapper"></a>

When I click the url..I get this

http://example.com/cams1/cams2/cam3

Why are the 2 suburls..are added to the url..why not a new link is generated. like this:
http://example.com/cams2/cam3 ?

Is it the way browsers behave? can it be htaccess fault..? I dont think that it is..cause when I hover over the link, I see this :http://example.com/cams1/cams2/cam3.. even though what is represented is:

http://example.com/cams2/cam3

Any idea to why this happens?

update

solved.. I did this:
http://www.example.com/cams2/cam3
That solved the problem..I suspect it was some htaccess problem..no idea why it works

Answer 1

It’s relative path. It will redirect from present url. You need to write /url/url2/. It is called absolute path. It will redirect from root http://example.com.