When I refer to the same directory on the server I mean on the live server, but if you do not have them organized this way in your local sites and create relative links they may not work as intended on the live site.For the absolute URL it would be like your first example:
filename.php

Yes, the files are all in the same live server, but when I create the links in dreamweaver, I am having to point to files that are in a different dreamweaver site, so the path gets a bit convoluted.
I used menu writer to link to the pages of the existing site using the absolute URL and that seems to have worked well. In fact, they were the only pages I could get to come up. I seem to be having a template issue.


