By davecoventry on

I'm getting broken links to my images.

The image files are at http://www.example.com/sites/default/pictures/users/

file_exists(sites/default/picture/users/mypic.jpg); returns 'TRUE'.

but print '<img src="sites/default/picture/users/mypic.jpg" />'; shows a broken link.

Furthermore, the broken link appears to point to 'http://www.example.com/node/79/sites/default/picture/users/mypic.jpg'

What is going on?

Is there any way to make sure that my links do not have these additional sections inserted?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

briansea’s picture

briansea commented

There are to ways to link to files, relative and absolute. sites/default/picture/users/mypic.jpg says: look for a sites directtory as a child of the current folder I'm in. That is a relative path. So, if you're here:http://www.example.com/node/79/ and you have the above as the path to the image, your browser thinks you're in the /node/79 folder and thus adds the image path to that path resulting in: http://www.example.com/node/79/sites/default/picture/users/mypic.jpg

So, you should start you image urls and other links with the base path of your site. If your site is in a folder like: example.com/mydrupalsite then your base path is /mydrupalsite/ if your site is simply at example.com, your base path is / . SO, change you image link to be 'Only local images are allowed.; assuming you arnt running drupal from a sub folder. This is an absolute path

Also, it seems from the link you posted that your drupal node urls have a / at the end, like: node/79/ - There should be no trailing slash.

prakashp’s picture

prakashp commented

You can use the $base_path global variable or the function base_path() to get the base path of your site.