My website on my server does not want to show the on server saved image.
The path is relative and to my information correct, but I always get a 404 error.
Found no solution after browsing endlessly.
All nessecary information is found in the second picture posted.
Apparently, you use a Framework. The file you have in the view folder isn't the one you send to the browser, it's just a source file that will be used by your Framework entry point: public/index.php. Your root folder is therefore public.
Two things must then be understood:
Even though the line your type is in application/view/index/index.php, the browser will only see it as index.php, located at the base of your site (http://localhost/index.php or somethig like that). The relative path must therefore be written as relative to public.
As your root folder, public, is seen as http://localhost by the browser, you can't use .., there is nothing above the root of your website, for the browser. You must do one of the followings:
Place your image in public/_images instead of application/_images (normally, all the files that can be sent without passing by the PHP preprocessor can go in public)
Place it wherever you want and create a controller that maps a custom URL to your image. Something like /images/(:any) maps to a controller looking into your specific image folder (please, don't, it's not because you can that you should).
My advice: create a public/img folder and place it your images, then you load it with <img src="/img/title_image_me.jpeg" alt="My picture">. (The initial / is very important there!, it's understood as the root folder of your website, Linux-style).
Related
I wrote this code, but I couldn't get the html. I don't know why. I want to know why this is when the route is not wrong.
<img id = "navLogo" src = "C:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.1.27-0/apache2/htdocs/TermProject/imgs/navLogo.jpg"></img>
For security reasons, websites may not request arbitrary files from your machine's filesystem.
Keep in mind that the way this works is the HTML is sent to the browser and then the browser sends a second request for the image.
In this case the browser would be trying to get the file off of your machine, (which may coincidentally be where the web server happens to be running), but if this site were live on the web and someone else accessed it, their browser would be trying to get this image from that user's machine, not from the website.
If the browser was allowed to serve files from your local filesystem, one could very easily create a site to grab files off of your machine and transmit them elsewhere, creating a MASSIVE security problem.
To fix this you should specify a path relative to the web server's root, which would probably mean:
<img src="/imgs/navLogo.jpg" />
or maybe:
<img src="/TermProject/imgs/navLogo.jpg" />
Note that behavior will be different if you're loading the HTML file from the filesystem (the location is file:…) vs. serving it from a web server (location is http://…). I'm assuming you're doing the former here based on the fact that your image is under an apache directory.
Ray Hatfield's answer is good but I don't have enough rep to comment.
I think you are misunderstanding absolute vs relative paths here.
You are thinking of absolute as starting with your c: drive, but on a web server, the absolute path starts at the root of your site, which is always just a forward slash "/".
Relative paths begin from the current directory of the source file(s) that specify them.
Neither of them can go higher in the file system than your site's root folder.
To put it simply (specifically answering "How do I specify an absolute path?"):
All absolute paths on the web start with a /
All relative paths on the web do not.
Given the path in your example:
C:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.1.27-0/apache2/htdocs/TermProject/imgs/navLogo.jpg
A default apache installation considers the site root to be the "htdocs" in this path.
This means that the absolute path / on your website is found at C:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.1.27-0/apache2/htdocs/ on your hard drive.
If you have a file C:/Bitnami/wampstack-7.1.27-0/apache2/htdocs/TermProject/index.html then you can access the navLogo image from that page
with an absolute path at:
/TermProject/imgs/navLogo.jpg
or a relative path at (note the missing forward slash):
imgs/navLogo.jpg
I believe the source you specify should have path starting from folder where your html is located. So, try something like this "/imgs/navLogo.jpg".
The element is selected properly because other properties apply. There are no console errors.
I have tried:
img/hero.jpg - works when I click on link in VS Code
/img/hero.jpg - works when I click
../../hero.jpg - work when I click
../img/hero.jpg - doesn't work
the full path - works when I click
The problem is seen here. You can see that images called by the src attribute work.
Here is the file structure.
I honestly don't understand your setup / question, but I think if you understand how relative URLs work a little better you can figure it out yourself.
On your server you have your files in somewhere like,
/var/www/html/index.html
/var/www/html/css/styles.css
/var/www/html/img/background.png
On your computer you have your files somewhere like,
C:\Users\Nani\Desktop\Website\index.html
C:\Users\Nani\Desktop\Website\css\styles.css
C:\Users\Nani\Desktop\Website\img\background.png
And in your styles.css you have something like this,
body {
background-image: url('/img/background.png');
}
Starting the URL with / tells the browser to interpret it as the root directory. On a Windows PC it will be C:\ and on a Linux PC it'll be /.
However, when you access the page once it is online from a url like https://example.com, the root directory becomes https://example.com/.
Therefore, using /img/background.png will make it look for the image at https://example.com/img/background.png once it is online, but on your local machine it'll be looking for the image at C:\img\background.png
Starting the url without the slash like this, img/background.png looks for the image relative to the folder that the css file is in. So in that case online it'll look for the background here at https://example.com/css/img/background.png and on your local machine it'll look in C:\Users\Nani\Desktop\Website\css\img\background.png
In my example, the best solution would be to use ../img/background.png, that'll look up one directory relative to the css folder, and then in the img folder. That'll work consistently on both your own computer and once it is uploaded.
That should be enough to figure out what you need to do assuming that the problem is the way the url path is declared. Otherwise, the problem might be with something else. For example, it seems like you're using SCSS. Perhaps the SCSS isn't compiled on your local machine (or hasn't been in a while), but it is compiled on the live server?
It works on live server because its settings make location of index.html a root of your document (/). When you open index.html directly your root is different and images aren't loaded from correct location if you start the path with /.
Best Practice
It is best practice to use relative file paths (if possible).
When using relative file paths, your web pages will not be bound to your current base URL. All links will work on your own computer (localhost) as well as on your current public domain and your future public domains.
I had the same problem and it turns out that I wrote the path wrongly. You have to write the url based on where the css file is, not where the index file is. Because the one that reads the url is the css file. So it should look like this:
body {background-image: url('../img/background.png');}
Because your CSS and your IMG are in different folders.
Apologies if this is an idiotic question: I used the following src declaration within an img tag to display an image on a Bootstrap website in phpstorm under a laravel blade file: src="C:\Users\MAHE\Pictures\Wallpapers\photo.jpg".
The image does not display; it's just invisible because the mouse pointer is showing the hand symbol when hovered; however, the image displays perfectly when the src declaration is:
src="http://weknowyourdreamz.com/images/apple/apple-02.jpg"
The first link is pointing locally (C: drive). Are you using a localhost or displaying it locally or is it live on a server?
If your website is hosted locally:
Use a relative path, example: images/file_01.jpg
If your website is live:
Use a link to an image that is on a server, as the path is meaningless in this context.
EDIT:
(Elaboration on relative paths to give more clarity as per comment)
The location for the relative path would be wherever the file is in relation to the file that you are trying to link from, so you would need to host the file with the site in order to achieve this. The link itself would depend on your file structure, a typical link would read such as: ../images/cat_01.jpg (the preceding "/" , "./", "../" represent Root directory, current working directory, and parent directory, respectively).
This Link provides a good summary of Relative vs Absolute paths.
If you cannot achieve this then host the image wherever you can and provide the entire URL for the image. Example src="http://www.forexample.com/images/cat_01.jpg".
As you should now be able to see, this is why the second link works. Your file can actually access this image whereas the first link points to a specific location on a computer - this makes no sense in a web environment.
From the very start of my development career one thing that has kept confusing me is relative and absolute paths.
Now I understand it in the way of URLs and that if you are going to a webpage on the same server you use the relative path and if the page is on a different (external) server then you will need to use the absolute path i.e. http://www.google.com. But I never understood it in the way of files.
Example and my problem.
I am building a HTML email class that will send a image as a img as a banner
builder.AppendLine("<img src=C:\Images\\MailBanner.jpg\" alt=\"banner\">");
Now if I use the absolute path like above, the image will display.
However, when I deploy the site onto our web server, then of course, the image is not in the C: Drive so the image doesn't appear in the email. So where do I need to put the \..\ in the source?
Is it as the point where the image is stored on the web server in the project?
I guessing you may need some more information then I have posted but I may need some explanation really.
Thanks
Just put images in a folder images under your project folder then your code will be:
builder.AppendLine("<img src=\"\images\MailBanner.jpg\" alt=\"banner\">");
And your image path is:
/project/images/MailBanner.jpg
And your project is normally under the www folder of your web server folder.
Set up an images folder in your project and fix your src attribute:
builder.AppendLine('<img src="images/mailbanner.jpg" alt="banner">');
EDIT: your problem here is your javascript code. You need to use an Apostrophe before and after your tag and quotation marks for your attributes of the img tag. Otherwise your javascript cant understand which your attributes are.
I prefer to mostly use relative paths, because when you move the data from a local location to a web server, as long as the directory structure doesn't change nothing will break. But, the OS also matters.
For instance, I can see that your file was moved from a windows server. So unless you moved it to another windows server and the drive letter is the same, your absolute path is broken.
If the file was moved to a windows server with the exact same directory structure:
builder.AppendLine('<img src="C:\Images\MailBanner.jpg" alt="banner">');
If the file was moved to a linux server:
www/images
builder.AppendLine('<img src="/Images/MailBanner.jpg" alt="banner">');
NOTE: The first forward slash is very important. The / tells Apache that the directory is located in the document root (www). Without the /, Apache expects the directory to be in the current directory where the file/script is located. Another important consideration when moving files from Windows to Linux is that Linux is case sensitive. /Images/MailBanner.jpg is not the same as images/mailbanner.jpg.
After i hosted my HTML5 application on Apache tomcat.My page is not showing any background image.
I have placed my project folder (MyExpert) inside root folder and inside MyExpert folder there is an image folder and a css folder .I am giving background image as
background-image:url(../images/myprofile_on.png)
in my css file but images are not coming on my pages except home page.Though application is working fine on localhost.I tried various thing but no fruitful result.
it looks like it will be a simple referencing or permissions issue here, try nivgating directly to the image in your browser and see if you can navigate to it manually so is this case given your description it would be:
http://www.yourdomain.com/MyExpert/images/myprofile_on.png
If that works then its a simple referencing issue from you css file, if it returns a forbidden access page you know its permissions, if it returns a file not found I would recommend checking the casing on your CSS url to ensure it matches the file path as if your box is linux then file paths are most likely case sensitive.