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| Troubleshooting
FAQs -
I uploaded my files, but my pictures are showing up as little
red X's. |
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Ahh, likely a
common mistake. There are two primary causes of this
problem.
1) Pictures are displayed in a web page by using a reference
within the code telling the web browser where that picture
"lives". The problem may be that these
references are wrong. Often when the site is built on
your personal PC and you create references to pictures you
create references to the pictures in various folders around
your PC.
To see if this is the problem, open your web page in your web
browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator or whatever you
use). Hover your mouse pointer over one of the red X's
and right click. Choose properties from the menu that
appears. |
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In the Properties
window that appears look at the Address: (URL) line.
This tells you where the web page is looking for the
image. If this address says something like C:/something
then the reference is set to the image on your hard drive.
Correct this by going into the coding for your web page and
putting the correct reference. For example, if you have
a directory inside of httpdocs called images or pics where you
store all your graphics the reference would be /images/picturename.filetype.
If your images are just inside of httpdocs the reference
would just be picturename.filetype. |
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second common mistake is in naming the files and
references. Unix servers are case sensitive. This
means that to the server picture.jpg and Picture.jpg are not
the same file. In the properties window, check the case
of the filename in your reference. Then compare that to
the reference in your page code. If one uses capitals
and one doesn't that is the problem. Adjust one or the
other so that they match and re-upload the affected pages. |
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