I am running Apache on Mac OS X.

I have this question that I might not be phrasing correctly but maybe someone here can help with an answer.

here is what i want to do -

i want to be able to use the back slash in a URL reference like so:

<img src="/globalimages/spacer.gif">

i want to be able to use this within a Users website, ie if i have a User on the machine and their login is wilbur, so that the URL to their website would be:

http://127.0.0.1/~wilbur

i want the URL :

src="/globalimages/spacer.gif"

to go to:

src="http://127.0.0.1/~wilbur/globalimages/spacer.gif"

AND NOT to src="http://127.0.0.1/globalimages/spacer.gif"

which is what it currenlty does.

I have combed the internet and APache places for this info and have been unsuccessful probably because i don't know how to phrase the question technically. I hope that it is something that I can tweak in the server config. file which I know how to edit and change.

The reason why I want to do this is because I develop websites for various clients and I give each client a User account and then develop the site there. The only problem is that the User account isn't at the root level of the server and therefore I can't use URLs that begin with "/" in order to refer to a global image or file like an include.

It just bugs me that I can't do it and bugs me more that I can't figure it out. Maybe if I read 500 Pages of a Apache manual I would finally find it.

I am really just looking for the answer than I am looking for references that might have the answer that I have to weed through.

Thanks

pink