My image doesn't show up

b3aver · 03-07-2008, 04:02 AM

Hi, I have a website (site A) and i want to introduce my website by putting a link directing to my website in another site (site B) by inserting HTML code as following

<a href="http://mysite.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://mysite.com/images/Link-extend.gif" alt="Image description" border="0" /></a>

As shown above, i want the link to be displayed as an image (Link-extend.gif) and i put the image in "image" directory, but it still doesn't show up in site B, instead it only display "Image description" text as the link

HOW CAN I FIX THIS???? I'm so desperate

, can anybody help??? Thank you very much

Boogle · 03-07-2008, 04:16 AM

your path to the image is not correct- it's that simple, your link is fine but the path to the image is not.

Check the path intensely, is it a .gif, is the directory "image" or "imageS" etc etc,

Sort that out and it'll be fine.

Boog's

corneo · 03-07-2008, 04:31 AM

also add www. (maybe you just didn't type that part out)

b3aver · 03-07-2008, 05:36 AM

I'm sure I typed the path correctly, it's in "http://mysite.com/images/Link-extend.gif".

Correct me if I'm wrong:
1. By using FTP program, I go to "public_html" folder
2. I created "images" directory and the filename is "Link-extend.gif"

I wonder if it's something about permission to that file?

My site doesn't have "www" before domain name so, it's only "mysite.com" but I've tried by putting www before my domain name but still no result

Any other solutions??
Thank you

corneo · 03-07-2008, 05:53 AM

Try baby steps:
typing the address to your picture in. "http://mysite.com/images/Link-extend.gif". it should open up on a browser.
If it doesn't, than you have the wrong address.

Did you get an email (you should have saved) from the server company giving you the paths?
example:
SERVER RESOURCES AND PATHS
========================================

--> PERL PATH: /usr/bin/perl
--> SENDMAIL: /usr/sbin/sendmail
--> FULL PATH TO PUBLIC_HTML: /home/site name/public_html
--> FULL PATH TO CGI-BIN: /home/site name/public_html/cgi-bin

--> WEB ROOT DIRECTORY: /www/

This will tell you the correct place to place your file.

Make very sure you are typing in out correctly. Caps where caps go and all. Servers look as caps and lower case as different.

ryukenden · 03-07-2008, 07:32 AM

Sometimes even slightest variation will not show pictures.

e.g. If your images extension is .Gif instead of .gif, it will not show up. Check the capital letters carefully.

b3aver · 03-07-2008, 07:54 AM

Quote:

Try baby steps:
typing the address to your picture in. "http://mysite.com/images/Link-extend.gif". it should open up on a browser.
If it doesn't, than you have the wrong address.

Well, I tried to do so and I do only get The page cannot be found text and yes I know that my URL path is not correct but it IS the path I should type right?

Quote:

Correct me if I'm wrong:
1. By using FTP program, I go to "public_html" folder
2. I created "images" directory and the filename is "Link-extend.gif"

Yes I received an email from my hosting company and I was told that all files have to be uploaded into public_html or www folder

Quote:

Sometimes even slightest variation will not show pictures.

e.g. If your images extension is .Gif instead of .gif, it will not show up. Check the capital letters carefully.

I double checked the file directory and the image name. I uploaded my image "Link-extend.gif" (that's EXACTLY my filename) into "images" directory (and that's also the EXACT name of my folder)

Any other solution? Thank you

corneo · 03-07-2008, 08:39 AM

Quote:

Well, I tried to do so and I do only get The page cannot be found text and yes I know that my URL path is not correct but it IS the path I should type right?

wrong, you need to type the correct path.
can you post the site on here to PM it to me. let's see if can get lucky and find out whats wrong.