# Relatively linking?

**URL:** <https://discourse.softpress.com/t/relatively-linking/467>\
**Category:** Freeway\
**Created:** [January 13, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/relatively-linking/467 "2008-01-13T20:53:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Topey](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/58956e/32.png) [@Topey](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Topey)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/relatively-linking/467/1 "2008-01-13T20:53:13Z")

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Does anyone know from where to find appropriate information abut how to make relative linking inside own computer:

Example: Internet cable modem company changes the IP adresses of my home computers every now and then.

It´s not a big deal to change addresses in bookmarks and in a one site which links to my computers:

[http://koti.welho.com/tsuonio1/site/](http://koti.welho.com/tsuonio1/site/)

the difficult part is that I have a html sites in my computers webserver folders which includes links to user/topey/site- folder to be used as a backup for memory stick when working in two locations.

Now, when cable company changes the IP adresses, it´s not only the bookmarks I have to correct, but also the links in every computers homepages also, because links are like:

[http://cs181192096.pp.htv.fi/~Topey/](http://cs181192096.pp.htv.fi/~Topey/)

if the cs1818… part changes the whole link is broken,

I tried to link something like [http://users/topey/sites/](http://users/topey/sites/) but could not figure out how to make it react relatively.

like making the link "first take two folder level upwards, and then follow path user/topey/site/

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**Author:** ![waltd](https://discourse.softpress.com/user_avatar/discourse.softpress.com/waltd/32/2720_2.png) [@waltd](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/waltd)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/relatively-linking/467/2 "2008-01-13T22:14:24Z")

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To link upwards, use …/

So in your case, it would be …/…/user/topey/site.

Walter

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**Author:** ![Topey](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/58956e/32.png) [@Topey](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Topey)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/relatively-linking/467/3 "2008-01-13T23:29:57Z")

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Thanks!

That directed to find a right path.

In the end, not an idea why, when I made some test links to see how many …/…/…/ levels I need to climb, I found out that only thing was needed was to write mark: (~) and username and slash ( ~topey/) and not any relative link marks.

instead of …/…/users/topey/sites/ (which did not work) I finally wrote only ~topey/ and there it is!

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