Problem displaying graphics

["Vishik, Claire" <vi...@tri.sbc.com>]

HI!

I am running apache 1.3.22 on Solaris 2.8 with mod_perl. 

In all the directories, the server refuses to display images producing a
"Forbidden" error "you don't have permissions to access... etc".

The permissions on the directories containing graphics and graphics
themselves are fine. I can view the directory listing from the browser, but
not the files
themselves.

What is the problem?

Thank you in advance,

Claire Vishik
SBC Technology Resources Inc.
512-372-5468 (voice)
512-791-9920 (cell)
vishik@tri.sbc.com

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Re: Problem displaying graphics

[Owen Boyle <ob...@bourse.ch>]

"Vishik, Claire" wrote:
> 
> HI!
> 
> I am running apache 1.3.22 on Solaris 2.8 with mod_perl.
> 
> In all the directories, the server refuses to display images producing a
> "Forbidden" error "you don't have permissions to access... etc".
> 
> The permissions on the directories containing graphics and graphics
> themselves are fine. I can view the directory listing from the browser, but
> not the files
> themselves.

It sounds like your path to the images directory is incorrect. I find it
is always best to use an absolute path from the doc-root. E.g. If you
have:

DocumentRoot /home/web/html

and the images are in /home/web/html/images, make your <img> tags like:

<img src="/images/banana.gif">

The initial "/" in the path above leads to the doc-root. If you have
src="../images/banana.gif" or something like that, you risk trying to
climb out of the doc-root if you mis-count directory levels or if you
move a file up one level.

Rgds,

Owen Boyle.

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