It's not that IE can't make sense of the address, it's just simply that "/something" implies you are looking for "something" just on top of the server root. In order to get "something" relative to the current URL, use "./something".

You are right. I described it poorly.

I wasn't 100% sure if the page is originating from the sever where the Zend Framework is installed.

Seem like putting the link in an href would make it easy to check in the status area.