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HTML HTML Basics Going Further with HTML Root-relative Paths

Posted by Max Bergman
Max Bergman
1,004 Points

Root-Relative Path not working (using Atom instead or workspace...)

This is what comes up with the site reading file:///#about

Index of / Name Size Date Modified .DocumentRevisions-V100/ 11/14/17, 10:01:43 AM .fseventsd/ 11/14/17, 10:34:00 AM .HFS+ Private Directory Data / 7/8/16, 9:17:49 PM .PKInstallSandboxManager/ 6/23/16, 5:26:19 PM .PKInstallSandboxManager-SystemSoftware/ 11/14/17, 10:18:22 AM .Spotlight-V100/ 7/8/16, 10:21:33 PM .Trashes/ 8/25/16, 9:48:31 AM .vol/ 11/14/17, 9:51:47 AM Applications/ 11/14/17, 10:00:42 AM bin/ 10/25/17, 9:37:55 AM cores/ 11/14/17, 9:51:47 AM dev/ 11/14/17, 10:01:01 AM etc/ 11/14/17, 10:18:22 AM home/ 11/14/17, 10:34:20 AM Library/ 11/14/17, 9:58:16 AM net/ 11/14/17, 10:34:20 AM Network/ 11/14/17, 9:51:47 AM private/ 11/14/17, 9:51:47 AM sbin/ 11/14/17, 9:51:01 AM System/ 10/25/17, 9:31:26 AM tmp/ 11/14/17, 10:18:22 AM Users/ 11/14/17, 9:51:47 AM usr/ 10/25/17, 9:22:13 AM var/ 11/14/17, 10:00:06 AM Volumes/ 11/14/17, 10:23:22 AM

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,268 Points

It seems to be displaying a listing of the root of your filesystem.

I'm not familiar with "Atom", but I would expect it may have a configuration setting to establish a "virtual root" or "base path" for document references to use instead. Otherwise, you may have to convert all document references to relative.