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images (tell me I'm an idiot)
Hello all, this is my first etc, I have tried to track down some information about the issue I am having with no luck, so sorry if this has been dealt with before.
I can’t include an image in a post. Hope I am not being incredibly stupid, I wait in anticipation. I can include a single image with an article, that works fine if I stick the image url in the box under advanced options etc but when I try to include an image using the textile option 
etc then the system seems to hang or won’t work etc. Other textile formatting works fine etc bold etc. I have spent ages looking thru the admin settings etc to no avail.
The site I am trying to get running works as a separate area to my current (static) site. The site is here
Now I have a server set up on my pc at home for testing etc and have a basic textpattern install running fine on that where images !http://www.someimage.com/some_image.jpg work fine, so I was worried that it was something my hosting company were doing (a module not installed or something), but while trying to track down an answer I found someone who is using the same host as me for my site (supanames) and he was raving about them being helpful etc so I would thing that textpattern should run Ok with them.
I would be very grateful for any help. Cheers
Last edited by qwallis (2006-03-13 12:13:46)
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Re: images (tell me I'm an idiot)
Reading your post, I believe the answer is easy.
- TXP keeps your images in the folder /images.
- TXP gives your images a number (click on the Textile-link next to your image after you have uploaded it).
So your Textile-link would be: 
. That’s all. The URL is relative, so you don’t have to include the whole URL.
Last edited by TNT (2006-03-13 14:42:43)
…Prrrrrrrr…
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Re: images (tell me I'm an idiot)
Idiot (maybe).
Well I can get an image to appear using 
but… Images with an absolute url still don’t post. (so maybe it’s more something to do with shoddy hosting?).
With the permissions that go with textpattern one can have freelance writers who don’t have image upload rights as standard, does that mean a freelance writer couldn’t post any images in their articals?
If it is a hosting problem in the end, has anyone else suffered similar problems, and how did they get round it (other than change host!)?
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Re: images (tell me I'm an idiot)
Well I can get an image to appear using
Why ae you using site_folder_name??? Textpatten gives you links to images in three flavors you don’t need to change anything about them. If you are on your images page you will see:
name Category Tags Author Thumb
pan-carla-cd.png Advertising Textile / Textpattern / XHTML jamie
All you have to do is click on one of “Textile / Textpattern / XHTML” to have a link built automatically for you. You should get something like
<code>!/images/44.png (Carla Redding CD Cover)!</code>
Have you chmod your images directory to 777? That may be part of the problem.
Last edited by soulship (2006-03-13 17:50:06)
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#5 2006-03-13 18:44:57
- NyteOwl
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Re: images (tell me I'm an idiot)
Being an old fashioned sort, I keep all images in single place for both my static and dynamic pages and reference them from there as in standard html.
Uploading and having things stored in a seperate place with and renamed to numbers sets my teeth on edge.
As always YMMV.
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Re: images (tell me I'm an idiot)
soulship wrote:
Why ae you using site_folder_name???
Have you chmod your images directory to 777?
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I am not using site_folder_name, that was just to indicat that I have txp installed in a sub-direcory etc. Yes my image folder is set at 777, but really that has nothing to do with anything as the problem appears to be only with absolute URLs. Well that’s not strictly true I have also had sucess using an absolute URL of an image still on site (i.e. in the image folder), but everything hangs when I try to use any other URL.
I think more and more that it is a sh*tty server problem. That maybe they have the max_execution_time set too low or something. I didn’t think I would run into trouble though with Textpattern, as it is described as light weight
I turned Textile off for a post and tred calling an image with just standard HTML and that all worked fine. Does anyone else have any suggestions as to how I could change some setting (within my control) to try and get this working as it should.
It is pretty fundimental as to why I chose Txp in the first place, as I am hoping to let other people post on the site who may not be comfortable with HTML etc. I understand that ther is a wysiwyg plugin for Txp but that seems like taking a backward step and if it is a system resource issue then I don’t suppoes that will be easier on the server.
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Does everything clear in your diagnostics? Path to site in particular?
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#9 2006-03-14 03:10:34
- vicco
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Re: images (tell me I'm an idiot)
I am experiencing a similar problem with textpattern installed on apache & OS X. The links work in my html but not in css.
HTML-
[img src=“images/syringe.jpg” border=“0”]
CSS-
background: no-repeat url(“images/top.gif”);
CSS only works if I give the complete url
Now I realize if I put ../images/top.gif it calls the img.
Last edited by vicco (2006-03-14 03:13:29)
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Re: images (tell me I'm an idiot)
Thanks Soulship, dig your crazy hair.
I have started a new tread for this, as it appears it’s more a trouble shooting problem, rather than me just being dim. It’s here
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