Site root links problem in Dreamweaver CS3

Question

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. /about/index.php ). It works on the internet
but NOT on localhost.
Why is this? What can be done? Is there a fix if this is a
bug? This seems like such a simple thing but it is such a
problem.

Answer 1

> Why is this?
Because when your (local) webserver see's that you are
directing it to the
ROOT, it goes to ITS root, not the website's root (e.g.,
htdocs or Inetpub).
You can get around this by using virtual hosts (google it).
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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.
/about/index.php ). It
> works
> on the internet but NOT on localhost.
>
> Why is this? What can be done? Is there a fix if this is
a bug? This
> seems
> like such a simple thing but it is such a problem.
>