/acatalog appending to file path names

[Tonyo]

I am using the Brochure page as my index.html in V6 to create my homepage but unfortuantly the /acatalog is being appended to my relative paths to files and images.
How does actinic call this, is it to do with a basehref or something similar.
I would like to omit this from my path names.
Please advise

Tony

[NormanRouxel]

With the single exception of the brochure home page, all Actinic uploaded files go into the acatalog directory so this is normal behaviour.

It's not the basehref, it's the Actinic program that scans the templates looking for files to upload, and changing paths as appropriate.

The reason for this behaviour is that Actinic "owns" the acatalog directory so it's a safe place for it to put all the files it uses. Other directories (like your home page one) belong to you so Actinic won't put anything in there in case it breaks what you already had uploaded.

As I mentioned the single exception is the Brochure home page but you are warned before this is initally uploaded.

E.g. if you have (in your Brochure Template)

<img src="mypic.gif">

then Actinic will automatically upload this into your acatalog directory and change the reference to suit.

If you want a link to refer to a file in your home page directory then use an absolute reference instead. e.g.

<img src="http://www.mysite.com/mypic.gif">

now Actinic will leave that link alone and it will be your responsibility to upload that file into the correct place.

Norman

[Tonyo]

Thanks for the reply.
It was the absolute urls I was trying to avoid so as to prevent the call back to the server for every instance of a file.
Especially my 1 px gifs and custom css.

Looks like I will have to rethink my directory structure.

Thanks for your input.

Tony

[rmladden]

See the threads that start at http://community.actinic.com/showthr...&threadid=4345