Hi everybody ,

I am trying to link two html pages, so that on of them is published and the other is stored in specific drive, i.e. in C drive. So that the path of the second page will not change in all user's computer who will click on the link. I have tried to link the pages using
<a href="Try.htm">click here</a>
This will work fine locally in the same machine. However; it will not work if I upload the page that contains the link to the server.

Can you help me, please ?

If you upload both files to a server then there should be no problem. One thing you might want to change, even if it doesn't fix the problem, is don't use capitol letters in your file names - it only causes problems. Also, it's safe to use a '.html' extension by now.

But like I said, if these files are both uploaded onto a server and into the SAME folder, then the link should work

I'd say add a dot/period and a slash (eg; ./) before the filename. That may help sometimes.

Originally Posted by fastLady

I am trying to link two html pages, so that on of them is published and the other is stored in specific drive, i.e. in C drive. So that the path of the second page will not change in all user's computer who will click on the link. I have tried to link the pages using
<a href="Try.htm">click here</a>
This will work fine locally in the same machine. However; it will not work if I upload the page that contains the link to the server.

So everybody on the network has the file you're linking to, but you want to give them a way to get at it from a web page?

The way you're doing it now, Try.htm must be in the same folder as the other page, and if you're only publishing one of them to the server, that won't work. Try this instead:

<a href="c:\someFolder\Try.htm">click here</a>

Of course you'll have to change out the path, but this should work against any modern browser. Some of the older ones might require this:

<a href="file://c:\someFolder\Try.htm">click here</a>

Maybe there aren't // after the word file:, honestly, it's been so long since I've used that approach, I don't remember.

Problem is that within the server, the files 'C:' and 'SomeFolder' don't exist. you're much better off just sticking to the filename

you have to put files relative to your site when uploaded to the server, not to a hard desk like working locally. Think about your site instead of the C:\ and use relative paths like ../filename mean the files is located one path up and so on