ok just a quick question

**mommykithana** · 08-13-2005, 06:25 PM

Whenever i try to link to my subdomain of

http://justdesserts.keepers-of-the-light.org/

my picture will not show up...

however if you reverse that and do

http://keepers-of-the-light.org/justdesserts

the picture shows up just fine... how do i fix it so that my picture will show up the other way around? so that i dont have to enter it though /justdesserts... but the way i realy want to?

**Ron** · 08-13-2005, 07:50 PM

Show us the html code for that page. (I'm gussing you reference the file as "/alliance3.JPG" or "../alliance3.JPG". Those wouldn't work for your subdomain. Post the code.)

**Vin DSL** · 08-13-2005, 10:21 PM

Looks like a '403' to me...

http://justdesserts.keepers-of-the-l.../alliance3.JPG

http://keepers-of-the-light.org/just.../alliance3.JPG

Do you have something in your root .htaccess file that keeps ppl from hotlinking to your pics?

Something like:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?keepers-of-the-light.org(/)?.*$     [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

If so, you would need to add another directive to it:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?keepers-of-the-light.org(/)?.*$     [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?justdesserts.keepers-of-the-light.org(/)?.*$     [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

**Vin DSL** · 08-13-2005, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by Ron

...I'm gussing you reference the file as... "../alliance3.JPG"...

Correctemundo mein Freund!

**mommykithana** · 08-13-2005, 10:57 PM

umm... im not exactly sure how to show my code lol, i just did a simple html let me see if i can find the code

sorry im fairly new at this and some things confuse the heck outta me

**mommykithana** · 08-13-2005, 10:59 PM

ok i think this is what you were looking for? im not sure this is what my code is now

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<center><a href="/phpb" target="_parent">
<img height="600" alt="" src="../alliance3.JPG" width="800"></a></center>
</body>
</html>

if it makes any difference im using dreamweaver to edit my pages.

**Ron** · 08-13-2005, 11:49 PM

(I'm going to abbreviate your domain name to kotl.org)

Here's your problem. The "../" in the src= part of the code is a relative reference. It means "the directory above where I am".

When you visit www.kotl.org/jd "../alliance3.jpg" references the parent directory (/), file:allianc3.jpg That works.

When you visit jd.kotl.org "../alliance3.JPG" tries to reference a higher directory, but there isn't any, so it ignores the "../" and looks for alliance3.JPG in the current directory. It's not there.

When you visit www.kotl.org "../alliance3.JPG" tries to reference a higher directory, but there isn't any, so it ignores the "../" and looks for alliance3.JPG in the current directory, but this time, that is exactly where this pic happens to be. So you see it.

You need to decide on the structure for your website. If you want to be able to reference pics that are outside of the jd.kotl.org subdirectory, you will have to completely qualify the pathname, that is you'll give a complete URL in the src= parameter.

Change the src= to src="http://www.kotl.org/alliance3.JPG", and it will always work. However, you might want to put all of your graphics into a subdirectory, say /images, so that there's a little structure to your site. In that case, your src= would be src="http://www.kotl.org/images/alliance3.JPG"

Goodluck.

**Ron** · 08-13-2005, 11:53 PM

If I had looked at the source, I would have seen that code and saved some time.... stupid me. I just looked at the properties of the pics. Next time, I'll view source before I ask someone to post it. How stupid can I be? :shrug:

**mommykithana** · 08-14-2005, 12:04 AM

hmm i tried that... and its a no go.. it still will not show my picture and i already had my picture in /images

so i tried to put it at src="http://www.kotl.org/images/alliance3.JPG" and for some reason it still did not work... it would show the outline of how big my pic is... but not show the pic itself... have i done something strange? or did i mess something up somehow?

basically dreamweaver allows me to test it out before i publish it... and i try to save it and it will not pull the picture up unless i look at my website with www.keepers-of-the-light.org/justdesserts instead of www.justdesserts.keepers-of-the-light.org

**Ron** · 08-14-2005, 12:07 AM

Finally, you probably don't want to create subdomains that need to use too many resources of the main domain.

Subdomains are like little seperate websites. They are used when a section of the site is really self contained.

For instance, a forum might be at forum.domain.com... all the files the forum needs are in that structure on the server disk, that is /home/<user>/www/forum/everything-here-and-below
A self-contained site about sheepdogs on a site about all sorts of dogs might be at
sheepdog.dogs.com -- it wouldn't use pictures from the "master" dog site.

It's just not really good programming practice to cross use resources between sites, unless you have a series of sites that are very similar and need common resources. That might be the case for you, I don't know.

Just some food for thought.

Good luck!

**Ron** · 08-14-2005, 12:08 AM

Ya, well you gotta put the picture there, you know! If you can't amnipulate the location of the pics, drop the "/images" and you should be ok.

**mommykithana** · 08-14-2005, 12:10 AM

thanks for the help.. i guess ill just leave it like it is for now

LOL i tried to load phpbb into the subdomain so that it would have everything there in its own little corner but once again, none of the pictures would show up for my forum. so i was stuck with making something like public_html/phpb and then just link to it as www.keepers-of-the-light.org/phpb so that it would go to the forum.

not sure what im doing wrong but what im doing right now is working for now LOL again thanks soo much for the help

**Ron** · 08-14-2005, 12:12 AM

If you right-click on the picture when it's showing and select "Properties", you'll see where the picture IS: http://www.keepers-of-the-light.org/alliance3.JPG

Since this link doesn't work, but we KNOW that the pic is there, I'm not on Vin DSL's side in thinking there's hotlinking protection going on as well. Disabling hotlinking protection in your CPanel may help, but might break something else you may have installed... if anything.

**mommykithana** · 08-14-2005, 12:15 AM

i know thats the weird thing... when i saved it the other way around it doesnt work... i swear to you that this picture is in my /images folder LOL if i knew you better i would let you have access to my cpanel so you could see for yourself... i have no idea why its saying its just /alliance3.JPG when its actually in my /images O.o

**mommykithana** · 08-14-2005, 12:28 AM

Well, i tried to just put in the whole thing of www.kotl.org/alliance3.JPG and it wouldn't show up... so then i tried (triple checking) and making sure my pic was in images and then put /images/alliance3.JPG that didnt work.. so i just went back to ../alliance3.JPG and it worked... I have no idea what kind of backwards things ive done to my sight but you guys have been great in suggestions... lol but i think ill stick with this strange fix of mine for now LOL and stop searching google and everything else under the sun to see what ive done

again thank you everyone for your help

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