Website images

[RECOiL™]

Dear all,

I have a website hosted at my work.
Externally the website displays fine. Internally the website displays ok, but some images are replaced by a red cross. When i right click on the image and select get image it changes the url to the old website address. What can i check to see why this is happening internally ?

Regards

[ikonia]

your internal and external references are probably different.

Depends how its hoststed.

[RECOiL™]

All hosted internally on one of our webservers IIS. Please enlighten me on where to look... gawd i almost hate this job.

[Agent]

Proxy / Some type of caching somewhere as well as above?

[DougMcDonald]

Need more info for this, what format are the images? How are you referencing them? Code etc

[RECOiL™]

if i put www. before it some images dont display correctly, but if i remove www. and just have http://sitename.co.uk all is well.

[DougMcDonald]

Personally, I would use relative linking for images.

e.g

Instead of putting http://site.com/img.jpg or http://www.site.com/img.jpg

I would just use img.jpg

That way, if your domain changes from www.site.com to www.company.com you don't need to change any code.

[aidanjt]

There's also the absolute root relative linking. e.g.

<img src="/images/foo.jpeg" />

and current document path relative linking. e.g.

<img src="../images/foo.jpeg" />
<img src="./images/foo.jpeg" />

In the first example, the browser simply prefixes the src location with the proto://domain the current page is on. In the second example, assuming foobar.html is in www.example.com/pages/ and you have a directory for images at www.example.com/images/ that would work. In the third example, assuming foobar.html is in www.example.com/ and you have the same directory for images, that would also work.

This removes a lot of site specific hassle from the web page and leaves it up to the browser to do the right thing(tm).

[directhex]

DNS differs externally/internally?

[Agent]

Or if you *have* to use absolute linking (and I cant really think of a reason at the moment), make use of either ASP / PHP and define the URL as a string, and just drop that in where needed.