# Testee --root option

**URL:** <https://forums.bitovi.com/t/testee-root-option/221>\
**Category:** Testing\
**Created:** [April 7, 2016, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/testee-root-option/221 "2016-04-07T08:28:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeroencornelissen](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/jeroencornelissen/32/180_2.png) [@jeroencornelissen](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/jeroencornelissen)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/testee-root-option/221/1 "2016-04-07T08:28:05Z")

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As I understand from the docs the --root option lets you define the path the files are relative to.

I’ve tried setting it up like this:  
testee test/test.html --root [https://trunk.domain.com/labs/qunit](https://trunk.domain.com/labs/qunit) --browsers chrome

I expexted it to open chrome with this url: https: // [trunk.domain.com/labs/qunit/test/test.html](http://trunk.domain.com/labs/qunit/test/test.html)  
But it opened chrome with this url: [http://localhost:3996/test/test.html?\_\_token=j5gfk0](http://localhost:3996/test/test.html?__token=j5gfk0)

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**Author:** ![daffl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forums.bitovi.com/daffl/32/26_2.png) [@daffl](https://forums.bitovi.com/u/daffl)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.bitovi.com/t/testee-root-option/221/2 "2016-04-19T19:36:25Z")

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It probably needs to be better documented. The root only takes the base URL. For you it would look like:

–root [https://trunk.domain.com](https://trunk.domain.com)

And then set `labs/qunit/test/test.html` as the test page.