Yeah I was wondering a bit about that. It’s not a highly used site so the traffic isn’t that great, but I’d still like to avoid taxing the server unduly.
I have some reasons for not wanting to use absolute links (I won’t complicate things by going into them here).
Now this is something that I might do just for this one page.
Yes I did indeed run into problems with my relative links, but some more RewriteRule’s fixed those.
I would have preferred not to worry about the trailing / but for this website people will be told that they can go to a certain address to get their school’s info and I’m afraid that some will automatically type the / on the end of the URL because it looks like a directory name. So I wanted to make sure that they got to where they’re meant to be.
Making the schoolname a directory will cause relative link problems - and makes the file test superfluous. Be sure that you really want to have those problems before using a trailing /.
Yes, you’d probably want to check if the requested URL is either an existing file or directory, and if it is, don’t execute the RewriteRule. That’s simple enough