proper way to write your links for use on multiple domains

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If I have multiple domains all pointing to the same website, how are you supposed to write your links so they do not break when used via a different domain, .e.g

Imagine I have the following domains for the same website

oshirowanen.com
oshiro_wanen.com
osh.i.ro.wa.nen.com

if I had a html link as follows

<img src="http://www.oshirowanen.com/images/me.jpg" />

That would only be displayed if users went to oshirowanen.com.

How should that img tag be done properly so it works on all 3 domains?

You shouldn't have the same website on multiple domains. Pick one to be canonical and redirect the others to it. — Quentin, Apr 05 '11 at 15:07
I second that, you need to look into your apache config to rewrite the others (probably the second and third) to copy urls over to the canonical site, e.g. http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/CanonicalHostNames . — Kzqai, Apr 05 '11 at 15:10
@Tchalvok, I'm trying to do that, but not having much luck: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5553980/permanent-redirect-via-apache-rewrite-rules — oshirowanen, Apr 05 '11 at 15:11

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 05 '11 at 15:08

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Just

 <img src="/images/me.jpg" />

answered Apr 05 '11 at 15:08

Matthew Wilson

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Yes, to make it equivalent to the example in the question. (With the "/", it's relative to the root of the site; without the "/", it's relative to the URL of the HTML document.) – Matthew Wilson Apr 05 '11 at 15:13

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 05 '11 at 15:08

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Like this: <img src="/images/me.jpg" />, the src is from the root of whatever domain that page is accessed from.

answered Apr 05 '11 at 15:08

clmarquart

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 05 '11 at 15:08

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If all your domains point to the same index, then you can just use relative paths

<img src="images/me.jpg"/>

answered Apr 05 '11 at 15:08

David

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if it's relative to the the html files. if all of your html files are in a folder and you have the images folder inside that folder then the / is not needed. – David Apr 05 '11 at 15:15

proper way to write your links for use on multiple domains

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