Help-My WebDev page images won't display.

Hello all,

Need help. My WebDev page/s will not display any images.

I have (I think) the correct virtual directory created in IIs pointing to the dir with my images, but no go.

The page comes up fine but no images. When looking at the properties of the image with the red X on it it says not found.

Any and all suggestions welcomed.

Cheers

Brian Holmes

Hi,

Forgot to mention I am using WebDev 14 latest build (30)

Cheers

Brian Holmes

Hi,

One other quick update. The image properties states "Image not available" instead of not found. Sorry about that.

Thanks, this is my last hurtle to over come and then I can deploy my first WebDev site.

Cheers

Brian Holmes

Hi,

If you view the source for the page in the browser (look at all the html code that makes up the page) find the code for the image. Where is it pointing to ?

Hi and thanks for the help.

Its pointing to the correct location as this is the dir with the graphics images in it.
<img src=/MySite_WEB_TEST_WEB/keys_max.gif

Physical loaction on the harddrive is C:\MySite_TEST\MySite_WEB_TEST_WEB

When checking the properties of an image (X'd out) it says its "Not Accessable" ?

and the address URL of the image (in properties) is:

[localhost]

Help.

Brian

Let me caveat by saying I've never used WebDev (or WinDev) in my life, so take this with a grain of salt, but, I notice that you may possible have a case sensitivity problem:

MySite_WEB_TEST_WEB versus
MySite_Web_TEST_WEB

Again, not sure if WebDev is case sensitive, but in the J2EE world you run into these issues.

Best
Chris

Nope not it.

The strange thing is I think I had it working with WebDev 12. But now with WebDev 14 no images and I did a setup from scratch.

I think I only need 2 virtual directories created for IIs:

One for the web site and one for WD140AWP.

Ugggg.

Brian

Hi Brian...

it's kind of hard without being able to see everything on the server,
but that looks a lot like a virtual directory problem (not pointing to
the correct level is generally the problem)

As your path is relative to your web site main directory, I think that
the translation URL/Physical web site directory is incorrect in the
virtual directory, and therefore all relative paths used for images fail

best regards

--
Fabrice Harari
International WinDev, WebDev and WinDev mobile Consulting

More information on [www.fabriceharari.com]


Brian wrote:
> Hi and thanks for the help.
> Its pointing to the correct location as this is the dir with the graphics images in it.
>
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Hi Fabrice,

I have a virtual dir set to the sub dir MyApp_Web where the graphics are located with all rights to read, execute etc.

Do I have to do anything else. The page comes up in this case the groupware login page but no graphics.

I thought I had this working fine in 12 but my memory is going these days <g>

Cheers

Brian

Whenever I have this problem (images not shown) I need to set a absolute physical path for the virtual map, somewhere in IIS.

The setup always changes this path in a relative one. Say you have a virtual map /WEB_TEST_WEB
Then change the Physical map i.e: \programs\mywebsites\WEB_TEST_WEB
to
D:\programs\mywebsites\WEB_TEST_WEB
or whatever your drive/path is.

OH you the man!

Added C:\ to the physical path and zhazam it worked.

What was baffling was I had it working in WebDev 12 then spent time upgrading to 14. I do not think I had to set an absolute physical path for the virtual map in 12.

Thanks again!

Cheers

Brian

may have spoke too soon.

That worked on my Windows 7 Ultimate machine but when I tried it on a Windows XP IIs 5 box same problem.

Brian

Quick update.

I am starting to think its an application server problem.

I purchased the full blowen unlimited app server and was using it. And I was getting the problems mentioned.

When I downloaded the app server which is limited to 10 users things started working.

This is for a Webdev 14 latest ver (30) app.

Still testing.

Brian