Moving a site with links relative to site root

hi:
we have a dedicated server (Linux, Apache) with several
virtual hosts:
/vhost/site01/home/html/
/vhost/site02/home/html/
now, i need to add some sites (developed by other people and
working in
their own servers) as "microsites" inside site01. so i
created a folder
named microsites and a subfolder for each one:
/vhost/site01/home/html/microsites/xxx/
/vhost/site01/home/html/microsites/yyy/
and a FTP account for each developer
the problem is that one of them (HTML, Flash & a lot of
Perl scripts)
was developed using links relative to site root so, they
don't work anymore
besides changing every link to the new path, any other way to
solve the
problem? perphaps on server sidewith a directive on a
.htaccess file or
in httpd.conf?
tia,
jdoe

John Doe wrote:
> the problem is that one of them (HTML, Flash & a lot
of Perl scripts)
> was developed using links relative to site root so, they
don't work anymore
>
> besides changing every link to the new path, any other
way to solve the
> problem? perphaps on server sidewith a directive on a
.htaccess file or
> in httpd.conf?
Haven't used it since the DWMX time frame and that was only
for some quick testing, but an extension named Relativity can be
run site wide to change from one type to another:
http://e7x.com/dw/
Danilo Celic
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>I am having trouble with links relative to site root when
I work on my
> localhost with Dreamweaver CS3.
>
> I am building a site with PHP, MySQL using the WAMP
server. I have a page
> (
> www.site.com/index.php ) that I want to copy to
sub-directories (e.g.
> www.site.com/about/index.php ) so I want to make the
copying as painless
> as
> possible by using site root relative links (e.g.
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> on the internet but NOT on localhost.
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