What does a “relative”, “absolute”, “file system”, “document root” path mean?
• Relative means relative to the directory for the current page. For example, when placing the TalkBack include statements in your HTML page, if your page is: • in the talkback directory the path will be ‘comments.php’, ‘head-inc.php’ • in the root html directory the path will be ‘talkback/comments.php’, ‘talkback/head-inc.php’ • in a sub directory the path will be ‘../talkback/comments.php’, ‘../talkback/head-inc.php’ ../ means go up one directory ../../ means go up two directories, etc. The document root path is the path from your server root directory to the directory that contains your HTML. On a Linux system it will look something like: /home/YourUserName/htmlDirectoryName/ Absolute path and file system path both mean the path from your server root directory to a particular directory, sub directory or file on your server. For example, the absolute path for comments.php on a Linux server will be something like: /home/YourUserName/htmlDirectoryName/talkback/comments.
