Why arents my pics showing?

**Norbi** · 03-12-2004

I'm running a linux box based server with Mandrake 9.2 and Apache ... now when i try to enter my web page through my other machine which is a Windows XP , my web page shows up, the background is the color i wanted, but the pictures dont show ... you just see the size of the pic with that 'x' on it like it couldn't load...

Can anyone help me out ??

Thank you...

Edit: By the way it's a .png picture format that i'm using, but i tried with .gif also and it didn't work, if that makes a difference ... if you need more info (i'm not sure what you need) then i'll be more than happy to provide it ... thanks

**big_k105** · 03-12-2004

where are the images located? are they in the same directory that your webpage is in?

**Norbi** · 03-12-2004

well i have my main index.shtml in the /var/www/html directory, and then temporarily i have the image files in the user/documents directory

hmm ... i didn't think that would matter

since in the html code u specify where to load the image from

does it matter where the images are located? if it does where do i put em?

Thank you for the reply by the way, that was fast

**logan5** · 03-12-2004

I think that it does matter what directory you put stuff in. You probably need to edit the apache.conf file to tell apache that it's OK to look in a directory.

Look at the "Scope of Directives" section here.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/configuring.html

Or you can make a directory under /var/www/html/ somethinglike"images" and move the pics there (of course you need to change the html pointing to the pics).

**big_k105** · 03-12-2004

what i do is go into the htdocs directory or what ever directory you have all your html files at i created a new directory called images. and thats where i put all my images at. i think link to them by using

Code:

[img]images/imagename[/img]

this will do it and this is how most ppl do this

hope this helps

**nikhil** · 03-12-2004

as far as i know you need your images under the docroot...i dont think you
can have images in a diff directory and ur docroot in a diff directory unless
you have created a separate mapping for it in the config file.

**Norbi** · 03-12-2004

ok just got home from work and tested it out...

i created a directory called /images in the var/www/html directory and places all my pictures in there and now everything seems to be fine ...

wanna thank you all for the help

Till next time

**kpzani** · 03-14-2004

This happens because the browser reads the html page and then makes a separate request for each of the images within the page. so you have to place images in an apache accessible folder - that is inside the current virtual hosts document root.

if you needed to get around this for a specific reason you could use a php script to get the images for you.

**Giro** · 03-14-2004

Symlinks come to mind

I wonder how many Apache servers are setup to FollowSymlinks :P

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