By mattyoung on
I've been setting up my site on a test domain. I the image links inserted in page are absolute path with the test domain like this:
is there way to have the src use relative path so I don't have to change when I move to the real domain?
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Look at URL or
Look at URL or L
I am sorry my img tag
I am sorry my img tag example got gobbled. Here is what it looks like:
img src="http://www.my-test-domain.com/sites/default/files/images/george-bush.JPG" alt="President George W. Bush" title="President George W. Bush" class="image image-_original " width="115" height="124"
I don't know PHP and very new to Drupal. Can you explain how to use url() or l() for this?
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what method are you using to insert images ?
if handcoding then you should use relative urls right out of the gate.
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> I the image links inserted in page are absolute path
Sorry, I'm interested in this problem - can you elaborate a bit...
What are you using to insert images inline? Is it a wysiwyg editor?
Or maybe these are attachments you're talking about?
I was under the impression that drupal would always use relative paths?
Thanks.
I use the img_assist module
I use the img_assist module here: http://drupal.org/project/img_assist to insert the image link. It puts the src="absolute full path" in the image tag like this:
img src="http://www.my-test-domain.com/sites/default/files/images/george-bush.JPG"
I found that removing the "http://www.my-test-domain.com/" part sort of work sometimes if I visit the page directly, but if I use taxonomy to search the pages, the img tags break. So I guess I must use the url() function some how. Can someone show me how to use the function in this situation? Can I execute php code in my page content?
If I'm reading your post
If I'm reading your post correctly, I went through the same issues a few weeks ago myself and this is what I learned. Keep in mind, I load my images using the "img src" tag when I write the content!
Instead of dropping off the entire, "http://www.my-test-domain.com/", try leaving the "/" after the ".com".
Should now read: "/sites/default/files/images/george-bush.JPG"
instead of: "sites/default/files/images/george-bush.JPG"
At least that's what works for me! Then when you move your site over to the "REAL DOMAIN", you'll still have the correct path!
I am concerned with your path though. On my site, the "/sites" folder contains two sub-folders, "/all" AND "/default". I created all my additional folders ie: /images, /files etc in the /all folder and I noticed yours is in the /default folder! I don't see how this could be a problem if you type in the correct path. But, I do know Drupal uses the /all folder when uploading images or files and that's where it looks for them.
I'm also not to sure but I think you should, since your writing the code, use "full HTML" as your "Input Format". I don't believe it will work with "Filtered".
It's not much, but it's what I've learned so far.
Hope it helps!
Alright!
You are right, using
src="/site/..." works all the time.
>I am concerned with your path though. On my site, the "/sites" folder contains two sub-folders, "/all" AND "/default". I created all my additional folders ie: /images, /files etc in the /all folder and I noticed yours is in the /default folder!
I didn't make that folder. I'm using 6.2 and it created the "files" folder in "sites/default/" on install. The image module then created the sites/default/files/images folder when I install it. It places upload there. And the img_assist module pickups image files there. So "site/default/files/images" folder is what image and img_assist use.
I'm going to see how to report a bug to img_assist.
You should probably start a
You should probably start a bug report on the img_assist module project.
No module should be using absolute paths for internal links, IMO.