[Eug-lug] Webpage won't display images...

[larry price]

On 7/7/06, Matthew Jarvis <mattj at bikefriday.com> wrote:
> updating a BF dealer page with some new pictures... they just won't
> display...
>
> I looked at permissions and out of desperation went 777 on them, but
> they still don't show. Originals weren't 777 but the user group
> permissions had 'x' in there as well... I guess I just don't know how a
> browser interprets a jpg file when it's flagged as executable...
>
> When I view source it has the reference to the filename just like it's
> supposed to...
>
> Okay, I'm stumped.... any suggestions?

URL's, relative or Absolute?

if your DocumentRoot is /usr/local/www/bikefriday/
and your images are in images/ relative to that then an
href='images/image.jpg' should work but an
href='bikefriday/images/image.jpg' wont

It can be confusing especially since common apache settings will
canonicalise urls for you changing 'images/image.jpg' to
'http://example.com/images/image.jpg'

Are you getting 404 Not Found?
look at how the URL is being mapped to the filesystem.

Are you getting 403 Not Authorised?
then you have a permissions problem at the apache level.