Using HTML form action with a php script being in another directory (relative paths)

Question

Here\'s what my diretory tree looks like

/application
    /lib
    /util
        /login
    /views
        /base_view

My login page is

Answer 1

I faced the a similar problem and the error I got was object not found /application /includes connect.php insert.php index.php

<form action="/includes/insert.php" method="post">
    //code
</form>

the above code didn't work and showed the error 404, Object Not Found. But,

<form action="./includes/insert.php" method="post">
    //code
</form>

The only difference is adding . in the action path. The strange things is /include/filename works fine for require or include but you will need to add . for form action attribute

Answer 2

In your relative path ./util/login/main.php, you're using ./ which refers to the current folder, so it assumes that the folder structure /util/login is inside /base_view. You should try using ../ which refers to the parent folder:

<form class="form_login" action="../../util/login/main.php" method="POST">
...
</form>

Answer 3

You must use .. / to go to parent directory

<form class="form_login" action="../../util/login/main.php" method="POST">
...
</form>

Answer 4

You need to set the action to a better relative path or use an absolute path. Examples:

../../util/login/main.php

or

/astuto-lena/branches/application/util/login/main.php

./ simply means this directory (aka current working directory)