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[Kenneth Downs]

Tom Melendez wrote:
>> Using an absolute path gets you none of the troubles you mentioned with
>> relative path, and none of the caching problems you'd get with an
>> absolute URL.
>
> The only trouble I have found with absolute paths is that it makes the
> assumption of DocumentRoot and where your files are to it.  If all of
> your environments (dev, staging, qa, production, running off media,
> whatever) are set up the same way, no problems.

Yup, this is the only problem.

I think however I might be ok.  Andromeda tracks the directories that 
apps are in and can make that known to the app, so it can add the 
directory to the domain name itself.  Now that I've got the theory down 
this should be easy enough to do.