title: Using An Absolute Path With FreeMarker
body: <p>I've been using <a href="http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FreeMarker</a> for a little while now, but there's one glaring piece of functionality that is either missing or I just can't figure out (I hope the latter!).  If you pass cfg.getTemplate() an absolute path, it just doesn't work.  I know you can specify a template directory, but I can't afford to do that, my use case could deal with files in any directory.  Is there any way to set FreeMarker to render absolute paths the way any user would expect?</p>