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I find that all links to images and other files end up with absolute URLs in the HTML. I gather you can stop this from happening. Is the best way to do this to go to

Admin > Content Administration > File Upload Preferences and simply change

URL of Upload Directory   http://mysite.com/images/folder/

to

URL of Upload Directory   /images/folder/

Is that the way to do it, or does that need to be a full URL on that preferences page?

You can experiment with relative URLs. It should work. Sometimes hosting comes into play. For files you can also use an add-on to obfuscate the file path

Thanks very much, Marcus, and sorry for the slow reply. It was recommended to me that I turn off absolute URLs for images etc, but I forgot to ask how, so was wondering if there was a better way than via file upload prefs, but it seems not. I’ll give it a try, then (server willing).

ralph.m,

Relative paths can be used in any area that stores path information. Unfortunately, there is no “master preference” for paths in ExpressionEngine, they are very much on a location-by-location basis.

Let us know if you have any further questions.

Cheers,