I couldn't put too much in the subject line.

I'm running OpenSuSe 11.4 with apache, mysql and php already serving up php based sites from the apache document root htdocs, inside the doc root are 2 folders (excluding the folders for the php sites) cgi-bin and images, now the problem is, for some reason basic html pages are not showing images from the images folder, using <image src="images/pic.gif> I even prefixed images with a / but nope, all that gets shown on the pages are the image place holders, unless I use the full url, ie <image src="http://address/images/pic.gif"> and yet I have seen the page sources of other websites that actually use an images folder,,, but how?

Also, if I used Kompozer to create web pages, how would I set that up to publish to my doc root, being that apache doc root uses root:root access, and vsftp does not allow local or external root access, which means I would have to publish to a user space, which would defeat the object of having an htdocs folder, and publishing using Kompozer is not like using MS Front page, Kompozer does not publish the entire site, just the html pages created, which means to put pages and images in the htdocs and images folder, I have to use webmin upload/download manager.

Well,

If you can put here some of your configuration files, then someone can see what is the problem and may help.
The files would be primarily "Apache" configs (in OpenSuse /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and default-server.conf )

Hi,

You miss the closing double quotes in the image URL. It should be
Regards

Now who's the Hawkeye !

Typos are easily created lol, but in mmy case I checked the html code, and the location is enclosed in 2 double quotes


I'll post my Apache conf files here,,,, they maybe a bit big, soooo, maybe I should use pastebin instead.

..Good idea !,
or attach to the post (as config_file.txt or something).

So it was a typo. Well, I don't think it's an apache configuration problem as you see the broken images placeholder.
Better have a look at apache error_log to see where it looks for the images.
Also since you use ftp to upload stuff in your webserver, make sure you're using binary mode to transfer images

Regards

Here's my httpd.conf and default-server.conf renamed with the txt extension because this forum don't allow .conf files.

Also the Apache error.log shows:-

File does not exist: /srv/www/htdocs/images/logo.gif referer: sites_blocked.html
File does not exist: /srv/www/htdocs/images/logo2.gif referer: sites_blocked.html

Both files exist in /srv/www/htdocs/images and are 755 permissions.

I can't insert the html tags used because for some unknown reason, this forum replaces them with the http address for linuxquestions.org like this:-

Ignore the linuxquestions.org line,,, it's what this forum has inserted.

I even tried relative to the doc root by prefixing images with /

Attached Files

	httpd.txt (8.6 KB, 29 views)
	default-server.txt (3.5 KB, 30 views)

How are you visiting your site? The referer should look something like:

It does show the referer as http://FQDN:port/sites_blocked.html :port is shown because Apache has to be running on a non-standard port, being that my ISP blocks incoming on port 80, and I have to use a dynamic host name service, but Apache should still be able to use the local images directory, when using <image src=> tag.

That page only gets refered to by squidguard redirector when a site is blocked.

Of course it should. What happens if you use: http://FQDNort/images/logo.gif

Using an FQDN:port in the url, does show the image perfectly.

You syntax for relative links is incorrect.

See here for how to do relative links: http://www.bio.davidson.edu/courses/...tivelinks.html

I'm not actually using clickable links, but image sources, when the properties of an image is looked at, it should show "http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/images/logo.gif" and not an FQDN, the <img src=> tag source should be relative to the document root, but for some reason relative image sources are not being used, but instead Apache always wants to use an FQDN in the <img src=> tag.
This is one of the lines in the html file called sitesblocked.html, but if the page is called from a redirector such as squidguard using a relative source, only the image place holder is shown, but if I use an FQDN in the <img src=> tag it works, the same goes for if I directly enter http://FQDN/images/image.gif in a browser, and the source tag is relative, only the place holder is shown, but use the same url and use an FQDN in the image source tag, it works.

What I want to happen (as I've seen on a lot of web page sources), when an image's property is examined, it shows images/image.gif as the source, not http://FQDN/images/image.gif

Regardless, a link is a link is a link and your relative links are not formatted correctly.

Here's an example of a correct one displaying a little map from this page on my boating site:

"../graphics/cbaythum.jpg"

(I had to leave out the img src= stuff because, when I left it in, LQ replaced the two periods with the path to LQ's parent directory.)

Note the two periods at the beginning of the relative path meaning "relative to the parent directory."