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

localhost:737/astuto-lena/branches/application/views/base_view/index.php

And I want the action of my form to be this

localhost:737/astuto-lena/branches/application/util/login/main.php

Here's my form declaration

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

But when I click the submit button, it takes me to

localhost:737/astuto-lena/branches/application/views/base_view/util/login/main.php

Which is the wrong path and generates a Error 404.

So what's wrong with the way I'm using relative paths in my form declaration and how can I fix that?

Answer 1

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>