Linking to index.html with slash takes me to my computer's root directory

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Linking to index.html with slash takes me to my computer's root directory



I am having a simple but frustrating problem. I have a logo on my website that I want to link back to the website's homepage. If i do href="index.html" it works but I when I try to do href="/", which I believe should also work, it takes me to the literal root directory of my computer.



For example, if I have href="/" and then I click on my logo, it directs me here:
my root directory



Will this be alleviated as soon as it's hosted on a server? Any insight into this behavior would be greatly appreciated.




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Yes, this is a problem that will only occur if you're viewing a site off your filesystem rather than a local or remote server.



If you'd like to prevent this anyway, you could use relative paths rather than absolute. For example:



If you're on /photos/index.html and would like your header logo to go to /, your link could be: ../ to go up one directory.


/photos/index.html


/


../



If you're on /index.html and would like your header logo to point to the current directory, your link could be: ./ to stay in the current folder level.


/index.html


./






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