Relative Path Problems in Javascript Ajax call

Question

Okay, I have a JavaScript file with the following functions:

function AskReason() {
    var answer = prompt(\"Please enter a reason for this action:\", \"\")         


        

Answer 1

Paths that start with a "/" (and no protocol & host) are relative to the root of the host. If you deploy such that your application is at "http://whatever/myapp", then your root-relative paths have to start with "/myapp".

When you're working in a server-side environment that involves some sort of page template mechanism, a common trick is to have that part of the path be some kind of configuration variable so that you can write pages with paths like:

click me

Then that "root" variable is expanded based on configuration to "/myapp" or whatever.