Png not displayed correctly

[Olyster]

Hi there !

I just installed joomla for the first time and the demo site is running on my PC. (Apache, My SQL).

The only problem I have now is that the png images doesn't show up (IE 6 and FireFox) when I access the site from à computer other than the one where the server and site reside. If I copy the link of the image in the address bar of the browser, the image is correctly shown. Is there a workaround ? Depending on the answers I'm gonna get, I'll probably convert all image to .jpg to save time.

Thanks !

[mpettitt]

Did you install Joomla as localhost, or 127.0.0.1, or did you use the server computer's external IP address?

If the former, image links in Joomla will be confused if you access it from any other machines. It can be solved by changing the configuration.php file to make the mosconfig_live_site variable the external IP address for the machine. If the latter, IE6 has quite a few issues with PNG files, but FF having the same problem makes me suspect the images aren't getting loaded correctly.

[Olyster]

Thanks mpettitt !

I installed as localhost. I'll try other config in configuration.php.

Thanks for the tip.

[Olyster]

I tried with 127.0.0.1. Have a look at the attachements ...

[rsphaeroides]

Those are probably all background images defined by template_css.css.

It looks like all of your style is missing, so it's not the links to the individual images but the link to the style sheet that is problematic.

[Olyster]

Thanks for your reply ...

If I go into properties by right-clicking on the "missing image" icon in the "empty" webpage, and paste this link into the remote computer's browser, the image displays fine.

I saw in template_css.css that images link are in parent paths (background: url(../images/subhead_bg.png) repeat-x;) ... do I need to enable parent paths in Apache ? or type the complete path (from the root) in the css ?

Thanks a lot for your help !

[rsphaeroides]

I don't see the "missing image" icon in the "empty" webpage screen shot.  If there is a problem linking to the style sheet the page would never know there was supposed to be an image so there would be no missing image.

I'm saying that the top screenshot you posted looks like it has NO style associated with it at all.  There is no positioning or font formatting etc.

Do you have the firefox delveloper toolbar? If there is style applied you should see it with that and you can live edit the sheet to find a path that works.

[Olyster]

Got it !

Thanks to all for your help. The problem was effectively in configuration.php. I change 127.0.0.1 for machinename and it works fine now.

Thanks again an sorry for this newbie question ! I hope It'll at least help other newbies !

[rsphaeroides]

Got it !

Thanks to all for your help. The problem was effectively in configuration.php. I change 127.0.0.1 for machinename and it works fine now.

Thanks again an sorry for this newbie question ! I hope It'll at least help other newbies !

That makes sense.  If you've got it wrong in the configuration it's not going to find styles or images or anything.  I guess the path to the database was sufficient for the content but I'm not sure where it was finding an index.php to stick it in.... not important as long as it's working now.

[mpettitt]

Joomla needs to know what machine it is running on. If you use localhost or 127.0.0.1, you are telling Joomla that the server is the same machine as is viewing the pages - they are both loopback addresses. If you give the machinename, or the network ip address, it knows which machine to look for images and styles on, and everything is happy again!
The giveaway symptom for this is that it works on the machine where Joomla is running, but nowhere else, and 9 times out of ten, the solution is to just let Joomla know the external IP address for the machine it is running on.