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Open image in new window

DerekGardiner — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:40:50 GMT

re my earlier message

I am trying to get small images to open a new window with a larger version.

using the URL http://www.derekgardiner.co.uk/ESW/images/filename.jpg works for some images but not for others - can anyone shed some light on this please ?

Derek

Re: Open image in new window

DerekGardiner — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:51:20 GMT

Hi anyone,

I am still having trouble with this. I upload the large image into the library. Supply the correct url (it works with some of the images) but when I click on the webpage image I get file not found on the server. Yet for other images this approach works fine. Anyone know what is going on?

Derek

Re: Open image in new window

Sogo7 — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 04:34:07 GMT

Hi Derek, can you give us links for both a working and non working example and I'll take a look at the code.

It's likely to be either a relative path error or a typo.

Typo's are the most likely problem, URL's are CaSe senSitive...
so:

http://www.derekgardiner.co.uk/ESW/Images/P1010980.jpg will throw a 404 file not found

http://www.derekgardiner.co.uk/ESW/Images/P1010980.JPG will work as expected

Path Errors: there are two ways of describing where a file resides on a server, Absolute & Relative.

Absolute is the full Internet address eg: http://www.derekgardiner.co.uk/ESW/Images/P1010980.JPG

Relative, is like saying 2nd star to the right and carry on till morning. Where you end up depends on where you start.

Re: Open image in new window

DerekGardiner — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 11:10:33 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for that it was a case sensitive issue. For some reason the library had stored the image as xxxx.JPG and not xxxx.jpg

Derek

Re: Open image in new window

Sogo7 — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 21:01:25 GMT

Give us a shout anytime, the learning curve is steep and we all needed some help when starting out.

PS:

My wife has your site bookmarked with great interest she's been re-discovering her lost childhood passion for stargazing since I bought her a smallish telescope for her birthday last year and loves the DIY observatory you built.