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Asked: 2026-05-26T07:30:44+00:00

on http://www.exampleSite.com/aPage.php , the following image loads correctly <img src=/images/sidenav/analysis-2.gif /> but at http://localhost/exampleSite/aPage.php

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on http://www.exampleSite.com/aPage.php, the following image loads correctly

<img src="/images/sidenav/analysis-2.gif" />

but at http://localhost/exampleSite/aPage.php, it tries to get localhost/images/… instead of localhost/exampleSite/images/…

My file structure is:

C:\xampp\htdocs\exampleSite\

I have had this problem across multiple projects, and have previously resorted to absolute URLs, but now I am just trying to make some quick updates on a page, and I cannot view it correctly on my localhost.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you don’t want to mess up with the src attributes throughout your website, you may consider changing configuration directives.

    You can relocate it by editing the DocumentRoot setting in C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf.

    It should be currently set as :

    C:/xampp/htdocs

    Change it to:

    C:/xampp/htdocs/exampleSite

    and your relative link as <img src="/images/sidenav/analysis-2.gif" /> should be working fine.

    NOTE:

    • Don’t forget to restart your XAMPP Server after making changes.
    • After these changes, your leading / will always direct to the exampleSite folder. Should you decide to change the root later, repeat the process for the root folder of your choice.
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