# Driving Me Nuts!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/driving-me-nuts/117456
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 27, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/driving-me-nuts/117456 "2004-07-27T16:25:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@webdeveloper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/webdeveloper)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/driving-me-nuts/117456/1 "2004-07-27T16:25:04Z")
I just setup the “Headlab News Flasher V1.1.2”. When I have Dreamweaver open and test it out within the creating area, it works. When I go to the browser and test it, it doesn’t work.
Anyone have any idea why it works one place but doesn’t work online?
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### Author:  [@webdeveloper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/webdeveloper)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/driving-me-nuts/117456/2 "2004-07-27T19:50:55Z")
This thing doesn’t work unless you have the html file in the same directory as the file. Why???
I cannot put the flash file into a separate directory and then call the file from another directory. This sucks.
Anyone else have this problem???
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/driving-me-nuts/117456/3 "2004-07-27T20:03:19Z")
you should be able to call it from another directory, that’s just not where flash is looking for it, you have to change the actionscript of where the component looks for the file 🙂
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### Author:  [@cheesy\_x](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cheesy_x)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/driving-me-nuts/117456/4 "2004-07-27T20:03:43Z")
looks like you need to rename some paths… The paths probably point to the directory you have it in now, you need to change those paths to get them to work on the web (as the web can’t call things from your harddrive)
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/driving-me-nuts/117456/5 "2004-07-27T20:04:47Z")
they can from my hd 😉 😛
lol, k, I’ll shut up now 😛
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### Author:  [@webdeveloper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/webdeveloper)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/driving-me-nuts/117456/6 "2004-07-28T19:47:58Z")
> [@cheesy\_x](#):
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> looks like you need to rename some paths… The paths probably point to the directory you have it in now, you need to change those paths to get them to work on the web (as the web can’t call things from your harddrive)
No, I did a separate file to test it out and pointed it at the correct place and it still didn’t work. It only works when you put the html file into the same directory as the flash file.
You go ahead and try it. Go the tutorial here: [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/newsflasher.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/newsflasher.htm)
1. Create the flash file
2. create an html document
3. Put the flash file inside another directory (/flash)
4. Set everything up in the html document so it points to that directory and that file.
I bet you get the same thing as me and it won’t work.
Someone try it please. 🙂
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### Author:  [@webdeveloper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/webdeveloper)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/driving-me-nuts/117456/7 "2004-07-28T22:37:57Z")
It’s fixed. Absolute url wasn’t specified for location of text file.