No Pictures in MSIE6???

[Luys]

Not sure if it is a bug, but I cannot find this specific problem in the forums (I tried several searches but none came up with this problem).

Here it is: I am running a Serendipity 0.81 blog, with a customised MT3 template. The URL to reach my blog is http://www.flatsunset.nl and in the configuration-paths section is the following:
Full path: /srv/www/htdocs/weblog/
Upload path: uploads/
Relative path: /

I created a virtual host for this weblog with /srv/www/htdocs/weblog as DocumentRoot (in Apache).

For some unknown reason when I open a blog-entry with pictures it is shown correctly in Opera (my preferred browser) and Firefox. In MSIE6 it shows no picture but the red-cross symbol. When I check the properties it tells me it tries to load a picture from: http://www.flatsunset.nl/../uploads/pic ... icture.jpg

Iaw, with IE there is a '..' entered between the URL and the uploads path. I cannot figure out why this is... Is it a bug, or should I tell people to get rid of MSIE a.s.a.p. (I really like to do that, but some people just won't!)

If it is not a bug, my apologies for posting in the wrong place!

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Can you give an example URL for an entry with a picture? At first sight I couldn't find any?

Basically, that "../" should not cause any problems...

Best regards,
Garvin

[Luys]

Hi Garvin,

Thanks for the swift reply!

Here is an URL that should give you a picture: http://www.flatsunset.nl/index.php?/arc ... l#extended. The text is in dutch, but that doesn't matter for pictures

I am a Unix Administrator myself, but I do not have much (almost none) PHP knowledge Regarding the '..' I guess it shouldn't be a problem because it cannot go any further back than the documentroot (I am not completely sure how Apache handles this request)?

Interesting thing (I just tried): When I type in the correct URL (http://www.flatsunset.nl/uploads/pictures/geengier.jpg) it works fine for MSIE and Opera. When I type in the URL that MSIE shows in the picture properties (http://www.flatsunset.nl/../uploads/pic ... engier.jpg) I still get the picture in Opera, but MSIE gives me the following error:
Bad request!
Your browser (or proxy) sent a request that this server could not understand.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 400
www.flatsunset.nl
Sun May 14 19:19:14 2006
Apache/2.0.53 (Linux/SUSE)

That sounds almost like I need to configure something special for MSIE in the Apache-config.

Any ideas?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Can you tell me howyou configured your path settings in serendipity?

Basically, your upload HTTP path should only contain "/uploads" and not "../uploads". Note though that if you change this directive, it only appliesto new images being added; images you already added to postings will NOT get their paths adjusted!

Bestregards,
Garvin

[Luys]

Garvin,

(this feels almost like chatting ). I get the awkward feeling that it is my fault, although I cannot remember how...

At this moment the settings are as follows:
Full path: /srv/www/htdocs/weblog/ (that is correct)
Upload path: uploads/ (sounds fine to me)
Relative path: / (tried different settings here)
Rel template path: templates/ (this works: my css is shown)
Rel upload path: uploads/ (a bit confusing, but I think it's ok)

Further information: I recently upgraded to 1.0 beta3 and the images are in a subfolder of the uploads directory, called 'pictures'.

So I guess I f*cked up the Relative path setting, but I cannot remember changing it (the motto is: fon't fix it if it ain't broke, right?)

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Hm, your path settings look sane to me! So if you now insert pictures, they still get prefixed with that "../" uploads directory? Because that shouldn't happen.

Now I think it could only be related to the WYSIWYG editor; do you have that enabled?

Best regards,
Garvin

[Luys]

Garvin,

It works indeed! Problem seems to be my unawareness of the fact that the pathsetting is statically linked to the picture

Two more questions:
1: can you move this topic to the right forum ie. 'User Errors'
2: which table holds this setting, I thought it should be the images-table, but that seems not te be the case (most of the entries there show 'path' as 'pictures/', including the one(s) not shown in MSIE). I like to correct all wrong entries...

Thanks for helping me out on this one!

[garvinhicking]

Hi Luys!

No need to move this topic. )

The path to the images is entered within the HTML code of the entry itself. So serendipity_entries will hold that in the "body" and "extended" columns!

HTH,
Garvin

[Luys]

Garvin,

Thanks! I found it indeed in the body...

All my problems are solved