Thanks Andy, I am developing the application on Grails with Jetty server, which automatically gives me the url of http://localhost:8080/mytrial, , but I got your point, that is a very good workaround.
In apache, we can do that directly. Let me throw this open on grails forum to see how Jetty can be tweaked to so that I can make "mytrial" as my main website for real testing. Thank you for the solution,I will get back with what I found for Jetty Server on Grails Andy Matthews-4 wrote: > > > I use a Mac Mini as my development server. It runs Apache and my other > servers needed to develop sites locally. When I set up a new site I do the > following: > > 1) Create a new virtual host for that site, with the URL of > local.<mydomain>.com > 2) On my workstation (PC) I create a host file entry pointing to my > development server: > local.<mydomain>.com 192.138.0.5 > > What this allows me to do is to use absolute pathing: > /images/someimage.gif > > And have it be pointing to the correct location. > > Just throwing it out. The same thing can obviously be accomplished if > you're > running Apache on your local machine. > > > Andy matthews > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of MarkAtHarvest > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 8:53 AM > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > Subject: [jQuery] Re: Absolute Image location > > > > awesome, /mytrail/images/down.gif works, only problem now I need to solve > is if I flatten this war file and install it on the domain itself(i.e at > http://localhost instead of http://localhost/mytrial) , then I need to > change the javascript to /images/down.gif > > Thank you Richard, Brian, for solving my problem. > > > richard.aday wrote: >> >> >> From what you wrote the way the link is being handled looks correct. >> Why don't you try: /mytrail/images/down.gif . >> >> On Jan 3, 6:54 pm, MarkAtHarvest <m...@harvestinfotech.com> wrote: >>> Brian, >>> >>> Here is the html code on myhttp://localhost:8080/mytrial/admin.gsp, >>> on my grails application. >>> Just added this to find the absolute location for the images if I use >>> <div class="images"> >>> images/down.gif image >>> </div> >>> >>> this goes to link,http://localhost:8080/mytrial/images/down.gif, and >>> it does not find it. >>> >>> and if I change this to >>> >>> <div class="images"> >>> /images/down.gif image >>> </div> >>> this goes to linkhttp://localhost:8080/images/down.gif, its going to >>> root intead of going tohttp://localhost:8080/mytrial/images/down.gif >>> >>> Thank you >>> >>> >>> >>> brian-263 wrote: >>> >>> > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:57 PM, MarkAtHarvest >>> <m...@harvestinfotech.com> >>> > wrote: >>> >>> >> Brian, >>> >>> >> I am a newbie on CSS , let me try to change it and update you back >>> >> on >>> how >>> >> it >>> >> goes, thanks it seems this should work. >>> >> BTW, changing to /images/down.gif, does not work at all, my images >>> folder >>> >> is >>> >> at the root itself. Under the webapps folder of my java application. >>> >>> >> Even if I try to create a href link to /images/down.gif, it goes >>> directly >>> >> to >>> >>http://images/down.gifinstead of going to >>> >>http://localhost:8080/images/down.gif. >>> >>> > Then you've likely got something wrong with your application. >>> > Though it's obviously not a jQuery problem, how are you creating >>> > these img tags? >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in >>> > context:http://www.nabble.com/Absolute-Image-location-tp21258855s27240p21272 > 4... >>> Sent from the jQuery General Discussion mailing list archive at >>> Nabble.com. >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Absolute-Image-location-tp21258855s27240p21292345.html > Sent from the jQuery General Discussion mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Absolute-Image-location-tp21258855s27240p21317518.html Sent from the jQuery General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
