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Hyperlink to an image
Hi,
I am new to website development. I am using Publisher to build my website. I am trying to setup a hyperlink for a photo on my domain directory (e.g: mypicture.jpg). This picture exists under "ftp.mydomain.com\public_html\images\". I am under the impression that if I set the hyperlink to be "http://www.mydomain.com/images/mypicture.jpg" then my picture should be found. However, I am getting a FIle not found error. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
Your help is appreciated.
I am new to website development. I am using Publisher to build my website. I am trying to setup a hyperlink for a photo on my domain directory (e.g: mypicture.jpg). This picture exists under "ftp.mydomain.com\public_html\images\". I am under the impression that if I set the hyperlink to be "http://www.mydomain.com/images/mypicture.jpg" then my picture should be found. However, I am getting a FIle not found error. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
Your help is appreciated.
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You should just test the URL to see if it works. Who is providing you the FTP and/or HTTP server storage? Are you hosting it on your own computer and internet connection, or uploading to some provider?
FTP is one thing, HTTP is another. You could test your HTTP stored images via ...
http://domain.suffix/folder/file.extension
If the image doesn't load directly in the browser, it won't load when linked with an IMG tag.
FTP is one thing, HTTP is another. You could test your HTTP stored images via ...
http://domain.suffix/folder/file.extension
If the image doesn't load directly in the browser, it won't load when linked with an IMG tag.
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I tested the link and it is returning "File Not Found". My server storage is at an ISP (I have a domain). I managed to publish my homepage and so forth using "index.html", what I am trying to do is to try to point to upload an image associated with a link on my page. I tried to put the image inside the same directory where my "index.html" but to no avail. The way I understand it now is that there is some permission issue associated with the image file I am trying to point to!
Well, if the file is uploaded and accessible, it should work. Did you have to perform any "publish" kind of steps when uploading other files to your storage provider? Do they provide any knowledgbase or support contacts? Who is the ISP / provider you're using?
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No, there was no need for "publish" steps. I know the ISP provider and what I have is a Unix type account with them (Can be run by Windows too).
So your .html/.htm files that are FTP'd to this public_html file are displayed when you access them with a URL, but the .jpg/.gif/.bmp etc... files are NOT accessible when uploaded to this same directory?
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Correct
Have you contacted your ISP / provider regarding this? It sounds like its either a configuration issue on your uploaded files (permissions, rights, sharing), or it could be that you might be using the wrong path when referencing the files, or perhaps it's not actually an http share or has some restrictions.
I would email the ISP support for this. On another note though, would you share the actual path and file info so me/someone else could try accessing from here?
I would email the ISP support for this. On another note though, would you share the actual path and file info so me/someone else could try accessing from here?
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I will do that thanks for the help.
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Regards.