[ale] question about user references under Apache

[Agent Durga]

alrighty....so far everything is going fine with Apache as far as the main
site goes, but i'm having a bit of trouble when it comes to user
/public_html/.  They show up just fine if the permissions are set
correctly by the user, however i am having a "reference" problem.  On the
main site, the same .css file is used everywhere, and it's referenced this
way:  /style/style1.css

now....if a user sets up their public_html dir with a style directory and
references that their stylesheet in a similar fashion (aka
/style/mystyle.css) Apache takes that reference as off the document root
of the entire website and thus can't find the file, because it's not
there...

i've tried using ~/style/mystyle.css, but it's not just isolated to
referencing a stylesheet, as images referenced to /images or ~/images
don't work either.

so i'm beginning to think that it's an apache config issue....anyone have
any ideas?.....i've put a site together for a buddy of mine that has an
account on my server and i can get it to work using ../ references all
over the place, but depending on how many subdirectories he makes or
wants, it could get way hairy way too fast....i figured i'd get him going
before i bothered with my own user webpage.....

i know it's not the code, because i can move his site into the document
root and it works just fine......

<shrug>

????

-d

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durga at burntmedia.org                              http://www.burntmedia.org



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