Relative or Absolute Paths for Flash Video Player Files
I have a Flash SWF file working correctly in the root of my website. It is fully embedded, with everything including the player hosted directly on the website (not a YouTube embed). This flash file plays from a page located in the root of my site. I want to show the same flash SWF in a page which is not in the root, that is, it is on a page which is in a virtual subdirectory linked from a menu item.
1) I have www.friendlyaquaponics.com
. The home page contains the flash video (second one on the page, not first one). It plays correctly. The HTML is properly set off inside of code ... /code
tags.
2) The same swf plays correctly when the absolute URL is put directly into the browser address bar, as www.friendlyaquaponics.com/fa-2013-03-24b.swf
. It finds all the required components including the player controls.
3) But then I have a page linked from the top menu TRAININGS -> NEW YORK. This page is in a Wordpress "virtual" subdirectory at www.firendlyaquaponics.com/new-york/
I have put the coding for the same flash video in the "New York" page. But it wont play. I have tried many variations of specifying the path to the swf (in 3 places as required), but no variation seems to work:
a) Referencing param name="movie" value="http://www.friendlyaquaponics.com/fa-2013-03-24b.swf" /
DOESNT WORK, even though this absolute URL works stand-alone as noted above.
b) Referencing param name="movie" value="../fa-2013-03-24b.swf" /
This relative URL DOESNT WORK (doesn't load or show the player controls).
c) Referencing param name="movie" value="/fa-2013-03-24b.swf" /
This "absolute relative" URL (relative to the root of the website) DOESNT WORK (doesn't load or show the player controls).
What is the correct reference within the Flash embed code to make this work, in the context of a page in a "virtual subdirectory"?
Topic flash permalinks pages Wordpress
Category Web