By jderdock
I’m setting up a non-managed VPS for the first time and can’t get root relative paths to work.
If I use <img src=“/images/image.jpg” />, it doesn’t work. It looks like it’s trying to go all the way to the IP address root to look for the image.
My virtual hosts file should’ve taken care of that, I thought…which is:
ServerAdmin me@myemailaddress. ServerName example.com ServerAlias www.example.com DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/public_html
Any links/hints would be fantastic! Thanks
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whoops. looks like it’s rendering my html. that should be “/images/image.jpg” wrapped in the appropriate IMG tag
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