On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 09:23:43PM -0700, Steve Winston wrote:
> Hy, thanks for the reply. Maybe I am putting too much of a path. I'll
> try what you say.
> adios, Steve W.
The problem that you're encountering is that the paths that you put into
your webpages do not map directly to the filesystem. It's the same type of
thing that FTP servers use. The servers change their notion of a "root
directory" to somewhere other than the actual physical root of the server.
Mostly it's for security reasons. You don't want someone to download
/etc/passwd out of your FTP server, nor do you want them to read it via your
HTTP server either. So, each of them changes root to a new location (FTP
on Mandrake is /home/ftp, HTTP is /home/httpd, I believe).
On the physical server, you can cd to the directory that contains your pages
and get the pwd and it'll show you something like /home/httpd/html/sphilp.
However, as far as the webserver is concerned when parsing webpages, that
directory is actually /html/sphilp. That's why you're getting the problems
when trying to see the images when you browse the page.
Hope this explanation helps!
> > > I can't upload my graphics to my webpage. Why?
> >
> >
> >
> > If the graphics files reside in the SAME directory
> > as the HTML files,
> > the IMG SRC line should not have a path on it, just
> > the filename.
> > Something like:
> >
> > <IMG SRC=graphic.gif>
> >
> > should work fine. I take it that the uploading
> > process DOES transfer
> > the graphics files to the remote machine??
> >
> > --
> > Steve Philp
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> >
>
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