title: Why does a leading slash cause relative URLs in links on my site to resolve to the wrong page?
body: <p>On my page <a href="http://example.com/games/games/ipad.html" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/games/games/ipad.html</a> I have links such as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="/../2010/junee2010/44/Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars HD.html"&gt;
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  <p>This should resolve to the URL </p>
  
  <pre><code>http://example.com/games/2010/junee2010/44/Grand%20Theft%20Auto%20Chinatown%20Wars%20HD.html
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  <p>but the "/games" is missing from the URL path when the link is followed. Instead, the link resolves to:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://example.com/2010/junee2010/44/Grand%20Theft%20Auto%20Chinatown%20Wars%20HD.html
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  <p>I try moving the page with the links to <a href="http://sitename/games/games/games/ipad.html" rel="nofollow">http://sitename/games/games/games/ipad.html</a>, but it didn't change the URLs of the links. Using jQuery to remove the leading "/" from the href fixes the link URLs, but this is a overly complex solution.</p>