Updating Links

After your move your files to the homepages server, you may find some broken links to your own pages in your site. Your site is probably using Absolute links instead of Relative links.

An Absolute link is the complete address for a webpage. For example:

http://uwp.edu/~mcgee/pages/example.htm

or

http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/department/pages/example.htm

A link like this will break after your files are moved, as the uwp.edu server or oldweb server will no longer have that file to display. Absolute links are generally used for sites outside of your folder, for example: http://www.uwp.edu/, http://www.google.com.

A Relative link is just the path and filename of a document within your own folder. Using the same example, the relative link would be:

pages/example.htm

Using a relative link my link will be pointing to a file within my own folder, no matter how the server name may change.

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