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Lise Voute
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March 23, 2017
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All links jump to root-relative

  • March 23, 2017
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All links in my website become root relative instead of document relative. Images, boilerplate, all of them. I tried everything. First changing it in the site manager but it jumps back every time. For my other website the same happens. There the links are already “document relative” in the site manager – but not in reality. All jump immediately to root-relative.

When I make a new page from the template (in which all links are doc-relative),  the links all jump to root-relative. Which is really a big problem, because in pages I can change them, but not what I cannot edit because it can only be edited in the template itself. For the time being I use pages which are ok to make now pages, but I don’t dare to change anything in the template and then update things. Who knows – might change all links to root-relative website-wide… Several thousand pages.

I de-installed Dreamweaver, I quit Adobe cloud, unchecked everything where it said “keep preferences”, and started all over again from scratch. Removed the site.ste and entered the website as “new website”. Made sure document-relative was checked. Doesn’t help.

I have been doing some cutting-pasting two months ago. I couldn’t get along with the newer versions of Dreamweaver so I made a test-website to try and learn. Then pasted some pages back into the original website. Maybe that is the reason?

Anyone has any idea what to do about it?

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    Correct answer Jon Fritz

    When creating a new page from a DWT Template (inside the Templates folder in your site's root directory), the links are necessarily root relative until you save the document and DW rewrites them automatically to match the setting in your Site Definition.

    Are you saying the links stay root relative, even after you save the document to your Defined Site?

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    Jon Fritz
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    Jon FritzCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    March 23, 2017

    When creating a new page from a DWT Template (inside the Templates folder in your site's root directory), the links are necessarily root relative until you save the document and DW rewrites them automatically to match the setting in your Site Definition.

    Are you saying the links stay root relative, even after you save the document to your Defined Site?

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    Heylise
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    March 24, 2017

    Uff - yes... after saving, everything is fine.

    Now I feel more stupid than I felt since many years. And I did quite often, but never as dumb as right now. Especially after all this struggling.

    THANKS!

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