Absolute and Relative Paths

ABSOLUTE VS RELATIVE PATH

 

I often get confused with these 2 terms but I knew that there’s a difference between them.

 

“Absolute path eg. http://webdesign.about.com/od/beginningtutorials/a/aa040502a.htm

Relative path eg. http://webdesign.about.com/library/beginning/bl_begin.htm  If I were to link to this URL from another page on my site, I could link to it in this way: <a href="/library/beginning/bl_begin.htm">...</a> “ (Source: clickhere)

  

The advantages of Relative path over the absolute is that we do not need to quote the whole domain URL when we do the linking.  This makes web maintenance job a lot easier especially when we are thinking of migrating the domain.

 

 

MASKING YOUR ABSOLUTE PATH

 

To protect your site being directly hacked, you can actually mask/hide the absolute path.  This site explains it all.