What is a relative path?
Every HTML document either uses full URL’s or relative paths to specify links/images etc. Relative paths are exactly the same in Perl. They are mostly only used in SSI calls as most programs require the use of absolute paths. If you still don’t know what a relative path is, here is the explanation: Different from an “absolute-path”, a relative path is the path to a document/file relative to the location of the document/directory that you are currently in. Stating a relative path sometimes requires the use of the special delimeter “../” which specifies “go up one level/directory/folder”. If you needed to go up two levels/directories/folders then you would use this set of characters twice, i.e. “../../”.
