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Posted by Philip Kroupoderov
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Philip Kroupoderov
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,641 Points

Is it doing a recursive lookup of the html file??

So if we have /file.html, and file.html is not in the actual root directory of the linux machine, are we telling the web server to search all subdirectories for file.html starting from / ???

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,228 Points

When you use a "root-relative" path (one that starts with,"/"), it's not the root of the machine filesystem you are referring to, but the configured root folder for the web server. For both security and maintenance purposes, this would not be the same as the filesystem root.

Also, web location references are not searched for, and must be located where specified, otherwise the server will respond with the famous "404" message ("not found").