[MT-users] images in archives

[Jem Finer]

Thanks David,

that makes complete sense !

cheers

Jem

On 27 Jan 2004, at 14:03, David Jennings wrote:

> Jem,
>
> At 8:53 am +0000 27/1/04, Jem Finer wrote:
>> This is a bit weird . . . got a root email this morning about images 
>> not being found in the archive for certain entries.
>>
>> These are 2 very recent entries - last week - and are there to see on 
>> the front page . . . for some reason they've also been archived - but 
>> the images don't load . . . is this normal ?
>
> The reason for this behaviour is that you're using 'relative' links 
> for your image files, and you'd be better off using 'absolute' links.
>
> e.g. instead of
> <img src="images/708.jpg" width="775" >
>
> the HTML for the entry should be
> <img src="http://cosmolog.org.uk/images/708.jpg" width="775" >
>
> The first of these works fine from the front page because the browser 
> looks for the image file in a directory relative to 
> http://cosmolog.org.uk/ and it successfully finds it there. But from 
> the archives page, the browser looks for the image file in a directory 
> relative to http://cosmolog.org.uk/archives/ (i.e. 
> http://cosmolog.org.uk/archives/images/) and this directory doesn't 
> exist, so the browser can't load the images.
>
> If you use absolute links for images, the browser will be able to find 
> them from any page or directory.
>
> Hope that makes sense.
>
> Cheers, David
>
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