Can't display images with php
I can't figure why this doesn't work:
<?php
print '<img src="http://example.com/sites/www.webmaster-forums.net/files/pictures/users/u8/thumbs/17082007001.jpg" />';
?>The file is there the tag seems to be fine when I view the page source, but the picture doesn't display.
Can anyone think of anything?
webwiz posted this at 17:10 — 31st July 2009.
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Silly question - is the image where you say it is?
Shaggy posted this at 18:58 — 31st July 2009.
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Copy / paste the URL from the produced source.
If the image comes up - weird.
Usually, you'll get a helpful error code - 404 - not found, 403 - Forbidden (file permission error), etc.
Cheers,
Shaggy.
Greg K posted this at 20:43 — 31st July 2009.
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If it is a dynamically generated image, double check the headers being sent with it.
-Greg
davecoventry posted this at 06:57 — 1st August 2009.
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I had the permissions of the directory at drwxrw-rw-
When I changed it to drwxrwxrwx the images appeared.
This is clearly not a good idea. It must be something to do with .htaccess. I'll have to investigate further...
Greg K posted this at 14:14 — 1st August 2009.
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On a directory, the "x" part determines if the role can go into it.
So only the owner of the directory could. Most systems, the webserver runs as something other than the owner's account (apache, nobobdy, etc). So with the setting you had, you could have FTP'd in and seen it, but the web server couldn't.
If this is NOT a directory that the webserver needs to write to, then you should do chmod 755 so that only the owner can write, but everyone else can read it and go into it.
-Greg
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