Managing large websites - moving web address

[Pegasus]

Hi there, I am in a bit of a pickle.

I have read and fully understood the 'large web site' documents.

If I have a site www.abc.com, just create mini projects in sub directories such as:

www.abc.com/about, www.abc.com/projects etc.

In the mini projects I can link back to www.abc.com/index or any other page in the 'master' project.

Clear!

Now the problem.
I don't have a web site yet, I am developing it. I have web space at a provider and have secured my web URL. Of course, I do not want to upload my partly finished web site to my REAL URL, I am using an obscure sub directory for testing, such as www.abc.com/test-991282374367464 so nobody accidentally stumbles on my half finished web site.

So my problem is that if I split my web site in mini web sites, I would like to globally change www.abc.com/test-991282374367464 to www.abc.com when i go live.

Is there a solution to this problem?

Can you set some sort of master variable that you can just change in one place?



If I want to use

[zaphodeist]

Use 'relative' links -

See: http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/de...lute_urls.php3

[gwpriester]

You are over thinking this. abc.com will load your home page. About will link to abc.com/about Home will link to abc.com etc.

[Pegasus]

Hi, gwpriester , I don't think ytou see th eprovblem and perhaps I am not clear.

However, neodeist got it and I believe the relative addressing may be the answer.

A quick test was successfull.

I need to do further tests and will post again when done.

Thank you neodeist for the idea.

[Pegasus]

Hi neodeist

Your idea of relative addressing works!

To re-iterate, I needed a xara project with sub-projects which I could upload to any web

address without the links between the project and sub-projects breaking.

This allows me to have a www.???.com LIVE web site for public access and a

www.???.com/testmenow web site for testing purposes.

All working now, details as follows:



Started blank project and one blank page named Project1

Yellow background
Text box containing:
Project1 index page
Link to project2

Web properties of text project2: ..\index.htm
(double dot to move down a directory)



Started blank project and one blank page named Project2

Blue background
Text box containing:
Project2 page 1
Link back to project1 index

Web properties of text index: .\project2\project2-page1.htm
(single dot to indicate current directory)


Files and export in following directory structure:


G:.
| notes.txt
| Project1.web
| Project2.web
|
\---website
| index.htm
|
+---index_htm_files
| roe.js
| xr_files.txt
| xr_main.css
| xr_text.css
|
\---Project2
| project2-page1.htm
|
\---project2-page1_htm_files
roe.js
xr_files.txt
xr_main.css
xr_text.css


FTP'ed content of directory website to www.???.com/testmenow

All working fine.
the files can be copied to any directory and all still works.

[Pegasus]

Directory structure - shown more clearly (dot = space)
G:.
| notes.txt
| Project1.web
| Project2.web
|
\---website
....| index.htm
....|
....+---index_htm_files
....| roe.js
....| xr_files.txt
....| xr_main.css
....| xr_text.css
....|
....\---Project2
.............| project2-page1.htm
.............|
.............\---project2-page1_htm_files
......................roe.js
......................xr_files.txt
......................xr_main.css
......................xr_text.css

[bjornkn]

You shouldn't need that ./ part of your path to mode into a folder in the current path.
You could also name that second project index.htm
The link to project2 would then simply be 'Project2/' which also works without that final slash.

[Pegasus]

Thank you.