Please help: Problem concerning relative url in IE

In our installation we use relative urls for generating links. So every link in the sourcecode is like page.html and not like http//:www.domain.com/page.html Unfortunately Internet Explorer has big problems with this setting.

The link "newpage.html" as a link on the page http//:www.domain.com/subfolder/page.html is resolved by IE incorrectly into this way:



All other browsers have no problems resolving the link correctly to:



Does anybody have an idea what we might have done wrong in our settings?

Perhaps you are missing this in your Templates' HEAD section:



Since all requests to subfolders in MODX Resources are virtual, you are always at the root of the site as far as it knows, but all browsers assume that your links are relative to the current subfolder location specified in the browser path if you do not otherwise specify this using the BASE HTML element as shown above.

Hi opengeek, thanks for this hint which let me found some bug-reports concerning problems of IE handling the base-tag:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/iewebdevelopment/thread/c51bb8b9-40ab-437b-a125-88b660f3e1ca/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2009/07/27/bugs-in-the-ie8-lookahead-downloader.aspx

Are there any disadvantages to let MODx make absolute links instead of relative links? If there are no disadvantages maybe it is better to use absolute links?

Late to the party, but I've heard that IE doesn't support the base tag? Sorry if I'm wrong, but I fixed this on my site by forcing MODx to use absolupt URLS, e.g.



It works for me, so just thought I'd share in case it can help someone else

I had the same issue: On all browsers the links where correct (http://something.com/page.html), but in IE it was http://something.com/SUBFOLDER/page.html.
Then I noticed that this SUBFOLDER resource was marked as a container in resource settings tab. Unchecking this solved the problem!