Re: [Docutils-users] Naive question about the image directive

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2017-01-23, Chris Green wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 04:02:59PM +0000, Roberto Alsina wrote:
>>    If you are going to use relative URLs, they need to be relative to
>>    where the HTML page resides, not to where the rst text is.
>>    So, if your page ends at [1]http://foo.bar/boo/this.html with a
>>    relative URL to the image of "DSCF6584.JPG" then the image better be
>>    available at [2]http://foo/bar/boo/DSCF6584.JPG or it will not work.

> Unfortunately my HTML doesn't reside anywhere, it's generated by
> rst2html and eaten by a PHP script.  That's what I meant by it being
> generated 'dynamically'.

For the viewing browser, it should make no difference whether it is static
or dynamic: if you can view the generated HTML document under
http://example.org/this/is/a/dynamic/path/mydoc.html or
http://example.org/this/is/a/dynamic/path/mydoc.php,
a relative URL should be relative to http://example.org/this/is/a/dynamic/path/

but:

> I think basically there's no practical way to use relative URIs in my
> situation, they'll have to be absolute.

Indeed, absolute URIs seem to be the most practical solution for your problem.

Günter