[wellylug] re:Configuring web site files to display images correctly

[John Durham]

michael at diaspora.gen.nz wrote:
> John Durham writes:
>   
>> After re-reading some of the messages on this, I decided to avoid some
>> of the earlier problems by changing the name of the images folder.
>> Having done that, the link below is an example of what a local image
>> link looks like (copied from a web page).
>> file:///imgs/home.gif
>>     
>
> That's a link to a file on the browser's local disk, not to one on the web
> server.  
>
> You earlier talked about "/images/ruler.gif"; if the browser has accessed
> a page via "http", then that's a link to an image served up from the web
> server; if the browser has accessed a page via "file", ie, read it off
> disk, then that's a link to the literal file /images/ruler.gif, which is
> unlikely to appear on your Ubuntu system anywhere.  (Apologies if this all
> seems obvious, but I'm a bit mystified by the change in the example...)
>
>   
>> Images are still not visible, although all the pages have been updated
>> to reflect the new path to the imgs directory. Nothing in the httpd.conf
>> seemed especially relevant. Running short of ideas here.
>>     
>
> There's several ideas that have been mentioned that you haven't reported
> trying yet:
>
> 1. Is the file on disk called 'home.gif'?  (Linux is case sensitive,
> Windows is not -- if you have a reference to 'home.gif', 'Home.gif'
> won't work on a Linux system).
>
>   
Thanks, I will check into that. Most of the images are visible now, but 
a few may be affected by that.
> 2. Does the file 'home.gif' have world readable permissions?  Does the
> directory it is contained in have world readable permissions?
>
> (For example, if you do the following at the command line:
>
>     ls -l /var/www/modecideas.com/images
>
> I'd expect to see the following cryptic string in the output:
>
>     drwxr-xr-x
>
> And:
>
>     ls -l /var/www/modecideas.com/images/home.gif
>
> Should show something like:
>
>     -rw-r--r--
>
> )
>
>   
That is already dealt with (during the delay time before I got your 
message), thanks.
> 3. Take Ewen's suggestion, and look in /var/log/apache2/error.log; that should contain a message like:
>
>     File does not exist: /var/www/modecideas.com/images/home.gif
> or  Permission denied: /var/www/modecideas.com/images/home.gif
>
>     -- michael.
>
>   
The permission denied is the one I saw.