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Broken link to images when moving live site to local server
Hi!
I have just moved my live textpattern-site to a local server, using the method posted on Wion Design.
It all seems to work well expect for the images; they dont show. The path to the images-folder is wrong ( localhost/images instead of localhost/mysite/images ). I have tried changing the img_dir in the preferences, but the path to the images is still the same when I view the site in Safari.
Here´s my diagnostic, hope someone out there have a solution to my problem:
Textpattern version: 4.0.2 (r1076)
last_update: 2005-12-17 16:13:26/2005-11-01 14:01:30
Dokumentroden: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs
$path_to_site: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/textpattern_live
Textpattern sti: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/textpattern_live/textpattern
Permanent link: messy
upload_tmp_dir: /Applications/MAMP/tmp/php
Midlertidig mappe: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/textpattern_live/textpattern/tmp
Site URL: localhost:8888/textpattern_live
PHP version: 4.4.0
server_time: 2005-12-17 19:12:52
MySQL: 4.1.12
Lokal: en_GB
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) PHP/4.4.0 DAV/2
Apache version: Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) PHP/4.4.0 DAV/2
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#2 2005-12-17 21:31:59
- zem
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Re: Broken link to images when moving live site to local server
It all seems to work well expect for the images; they dont show.
Which images? How are you linking to them?
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Re: Broken link to images when moving live site to local server
It is all the images for the front-end part of the site, I have uploaded all of them to my site via txps images-tab – so the links should be relative and thus also work on my local server, or so I would think.
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Re: Broken link to images when moving live site to local server
Are these CSS images?
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Re: Broken link to images when moving live site to local server
It is all the images, the CSS-background-images, the ones I’ve used in the page-template and the ones I’ve used in my posts. Here is a screendump of the whole affair, the CSS is also dancing around a bit, I dont know what that is all about. I am newbie so it could be some banal thing that is wrong.
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#6 2005-12-17 23:36:09
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Re: Broken link to images when moving live site to local server
Okay, and how are you linking to your images in your CSS and pages?
Last edited by Mary (2005-12-17 23:36:21)
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Re: Broken link to images when moving live site to local server
I am using relative links that points to the images-folder.
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#8 2005-12-18 01:03:29
- zem
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Re: Broken link to images when moving live site to local server
I am using relative links that points to the images-folder.
Please be specific, show us some examples. Relative links in what – HTML tags, Textpattern tags, textile, articles, forms, page templates? And, relative to what?
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Re: Broken link to images when moving live site to local server
Sorry, I’ll try to be a bit more specific:
Here is an image that i use in the page-template:
<code><img id=“masthead” src=”/images/21.jpg” alt=“Sukkerspray” /></code>
When I use images in posts i use Textile:
<code>!/images/28.jpg (Koncertharpe)!</code>
And this is how I link images in the CSS via the style-tab:
<code>background-image:url(/images/19.jpg); </code>
I have textpattern installed in my public.html-folder, so the links should point to the images-folder in the root of public.html. When I copy the site to my local server it should point to the same images-folder on my local server.
I redid the whole process again this afternoon, except that I didnt update textpattern to the latest revision after I had moved the site. Now I can see the images that are included in the CSS, but none of the other images.
Last edited by timkl (2005-12-18 16:20:09)
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#10 2005-12-18 21:53:37
- zem
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Re: Broken link to images when moving live site to local server
The paths you’re using are absolute, not relative – a relative path would look like <img src="images/21.jpg" /> (which has its own problems). All of those examples point to http://yoursite.com/images/21.jpg or similar. That’s not a Textpattern problem, it’s the way you’ve written the links.
If you’re linking to images by number, try the txp:image tag.
Textpattern 4.0.2 includes a second tag, <txp:img />, that will link to an image relative to the Textpattern root – e.g. <txp:img src="images/21.jpg" />.
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Re: Broken link to images when moving live site to local server
I removed the slash and now it all works! Didn’t think the slash meant anything.
Thank you for helping out a newbie : )
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