Relative image/attachement links

[Kilidsch]

Hey,

Otterwiki seems like a great project and we want to switch to it from our old wiki.
During the switch I noticed something:

In the preview, relative links to images worked, i.e. if I upload an image as an attachement for a page and add a relative image-link, the image is displayed correctly. On the finished page, the image is not displayed. To be displayed on the finished page, an absolute link is required.

So the question: Are relative links to attachements supposed to work?

[Kilidsch]

Ok, after thinking about it a bit here is what I think happens:

Otterwiki just pastes the link form the image link into an image tag. So we get

<img src="relative-path.jpg" />

This assumes it is in the same directory, so if this is on page www.my-otterwiki.com/chapter/page it tries to load www.my-otterwiki.com/chapter/relative-path.jpg. When editing, the link changes to www.my-otterwiki.com/chapter/page/edit, which leads the relative img-tag to search in www.my-otterwiki.com/chapter/page; which is coincidentally correct.

This probably means it is not supposed to work in either. And while a relative link pagename/relative-path.jpg would work, it would break in preview. So relative paths are just not supported properly.

[redimp]

Hey @Kilidsch, thank you for bringing this up.

It would be nice to be able to reference attachments not with the full path,

e.g.

![](/Example/a/example.png)

but relative:

![](example.png)

or

![](./example.png)

Currently the renderer knows nothing about the path of the page it's rendering, will have to look into it to find a nice solution.

[redimp]

Released in v2.8.0.