Clean URLs break links to inline images in Single Node View and Preview

Heine, using src=" /files/picture.jpg" breaks all the images in all views, including List View.

Why would it be different whether clean url are used or not ?
Why would a relative link work in one view and not in another ?

Thing is the content of a story or page is HTML. That HTML just ends up on the index.php page, in whatever view is asked of it.

I am not talking about an image I have uploaded using the upload module.

I forgot to say that files/picture.jpg is relative to my root, where index.php is located.

Here is the absolute path for my file : http://localhost/drupal-4.7.4/files/pic.jpg

If I use this abolute path (the url) it works in all views, of course. (lol)

Yeah you're right.

If I use /drupal-4.7.4/files/pic.jpg it works.

But that makes me worried. When I move my Drupal installation on a remote server, all image links will break because the absolute path from the root (httdocs) will not be the same.

What do you recommend ?

Heine,

Why does a relative path to index.php works so well for all views when clean URLs is disabled and it stops working when it is enabled ?

From a content displayed using php code, which php gives us the server path to index.php ?

I have something and it works, but it is aweful-looking :

The following always displays an image correctly, whatever its vue :

<?php
$index = 1;
$path = "";
while (arg($index)) {
$path .= "../";
$index++;
}
$path .="files/image.jpg";
echo '<img src="'.$path.'" alt="some picture" />';
?>

Shorter :

<?php echo '<img src="'.base_path().'files/picture.jpg" alt="some picture" />'; ?>

That works too.

Is there a quick dirty fix in .htaccess ?

  # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and
  # the rewrite rules are not working properly.
  RewriteBase /drupal-4.7.4

Or in sites/default/settings.php ?

$base_url = 'http://localhost/drupal-4.7.4'; // NO trailing slash!

I tried many, many things and it doesn't resolve the problem with clean URLs.

This works :

http://localhost/drupal-4.7.4/node/1?q=node/3

It does open a view to node/3

???

I second that. There ought to be a way in core to do what CogRusty is describing.

I do believe that this is a bug, though.

Clean URLs are dealt with by Drupal.
It is Drupal that takes care of understanding clean URLs.
It is Drupal that creates ReWrite rules in an .htaccess file in the root of the Drupal folder so that when an HTTP request that is trying to retrieve such page as http://www.myWebSite.com/node/5 is received, that request is translated to please get us : http://www.myWebSite.com/index.php?q=node/5.
Since the path to the "files" folder is one set in Administer>settings>File System Settings by the user,
recorded as File system path,
i.e. since Drupal knows the path to that folder, Drupal should
add a special Rewrite rule to its own special Rewrite rules when clean URLs is enabled so that it can understand such path as : http://www.myWebSite.com/..../files/... to any file.
Hard-coding links to the web root folder is bad practice.
Relying strictly on contributed image "assist" modules to simply put images in content is way too restrictive.
A Rewrite Rule can be written by someone who understands regular expression well.

I don't want to get into any argument though. I am all for trying to find my own fix in life, so if someone changes the status back to feature request, rest assured I will stay out of it lol...

Regards,

That module is buggy.