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Someone asked me to update an ancient shared host website made with Dreamweaver. This is static HTML that has not changed in years. My goal is to migrate it to a content management system but in the meantime I’m seeing something that confuses me.
If I scp -r the entire contents of the remote DOCUMENT_ROOT into localhost on my desktop Mint Linux (Cinnamon) distribution the appearance of the site changes.
I hesitate to say this is a path issue because all *.css files seem to be used and recognized on localhost. For instance if I change the styles.css found in the DOCUMENT_ROOT on localhost the appearance changes. But when styles.css is identical on both localhost and the remote server the relative size of both images and DIV elements are not the same–when I mouse click back and forth between two tabs that contain identical codes, one tab localhost and one tab a remote shared host. I must be missing something.
I’m not using “sites-available” on localhost. I could. Right now I have all of the remote site copied into /var/www/html which is the default DOCUMENT_ROOT on localhost. The appearances should be the same but they are not.
What am I missing? Besides a clue? Thank you for any help.