When inserting images into a node using imce and tinymce, the path to the image is given as an absolute path, rather than a relative one.

Situation: creating content on my home machine before transferring to the server and going live.

Drupal is accessed on my home machine via http://localhost/drupal-5.0 , "drupal-5.0" being the subdirectory in which Drupal is installed.

When IMCE generates links to files for insertion into nodes, the links look like this: "/drupal-5.0/files/whatever.jpg".

Links should look like this: "files/whatever.jpg", which is relative to the drupal installation.

This is a small bug which will wreak havock when migrating Drupal installations.

BTW, IMCE is a great module. Thank you for all the hard work!!!!!

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ufku CreditAttribution: ufku commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

the URLs created by IMCE are drupal URLs and they are relative to the host name. they must be so, because when you use clean URLs relative paths in a page may corrupt.
for instance in a "/node/x" page, your path "files/whatever.jpg" will point to "/node/files/whatever.jpg" which is incorrect.
this is a common situation with development sites under a sub-directory. if you search the site you'll see that there is already lots of discussions on this. i think the best practice is to work under a sub-domain (sub.domain.com) pointing to your test site.
i hope it helps.