Relative Paths not working on apache2 web server

Question

I'm pretty new to Linux and Apache and I have a problem with relative paths. I developed my website locally on a Mac, using relative paths and everything worked fine. My files are in a folder with following subfolders:

• sites
• css
• images

Now I'm trying to set up my website on a Linux server running Debian. Almost everything worked out perfectly and I can reach my index.html through the internet. But obviously, relative paths are not working, since I placed my images, my css-file and my other sites in above subfolders, which I try to access with relative paths, but actually they are not working. When I try to access another site (about.html) which is in the sites-folder, I just get this error:

404 Not Found The requested URL /sites/about.html was not found on this server.

For example, from my index.html, I'm trying to access my css-file with this path:

../css/standard.css

I've also implemented external paths, these are working correctly. I'd really appreciate any help or clues. Thank you very much!

Answer 1

For security reasons paths like ../somepath are generally not allowed when the span outside the document route. For a URL like http:/www/example.com/content/index.html they should be acceptable; but for a URL like http://www.example.com/index.html they should not.

I get requests for paths like ../../../../../etc/passwd. If this was honored, the requester would have a list of valid user ids on my system that they could try to crack.

As already noted, the error log is a good place to look for problems like this.

Answer 2

for security its not allowable for this u can use directive add this to configuration file Order allow,deny Allow from all for more refer :http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#directory