How to specify a relative URL in cotent editor web part?
You can give the relative url in the content editor webpart. It will work fine till the time you edit the content editor webpart. Once you edit the content editor webpart the relative url will automatically converted to absolute url.
Why do you need relative URL for SharePoint?
The relative URL removes the base URL http://portal, which is the root web of the web application. This becomes important especially if you use SSL on a web application, where you allow access via SSL and non-SSL, or if you use Alternate Access Mappings. If you use absolute URLs, the other website will never get used.
How to get relative path of SharePoint 2010 site?
There are only a couple things that don’t support relative paths in the UI, like the Portal Site Connection. The UI requires http://, but if you set it with PowerShell, it be relative as well. The information in your post about SharePoint is more interesting. and this info is more useful for the developers to develop the SharePoint apps.
Which is an example of a relative URL?
Let’s look a couple examples: The relative URL removes the base URL http://portal, which is the root web of the web application. This becomes important especially if you use SSL on a web application, where you allow access via SSL and non-SSL, or if you use Alternate Access Mappings.
How to convert relative path to absolute path?
Note that that will use the current working directory of the process, not the directory containing the executable. If that doesn’t help, please clarify your question. This one works for paths on different drives, for drive-relative paths and for actual relative paths.
Is there a way to make the basepath absolute?
Heck, it even works if the basePath isn’t actually absolute; it always uses the current working directory as final fallback.