This is the weirdest thing. I have a couple Virtual Hosts running on my machine. When I access their directories by http://myipaddress/directory/ they display just fine.

But when I try and connect with the virtual host, the HTML renders fine, but no images are displayed! http://myvirtualhost.com

No images? WTF?

Directory structure of the vhost is like this:

index.html
images/

All the pictures are stored in "images/". It's like it refuses to look any farther up into the directory structure than the first directory of the vhost.

What is going on??? I'm pulling my hair out here.

-Erik!

This smells like "not an Apache problem"

What do your image links look like? Are they "images/imagename.xxx", "/images/imagename.xxx" or "directory/images/imagename.xxx" ? The first 2 will work but the last one will not (obviously). Example: If you right click on where the image should be and click "View Image", where are you taken?

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that you could do with either server config or permissions which would do this (well, not accidentally anyway).

Thanks for the reply. Image tags are all like this...

<img src="images/stereo.gif" alt="NEWS">

and so, should work.

In IE, if I right-click on the broken image icon and do Properties it gives me a correct URL to where the image should be...

http://mydomainname.com/images/stereo.gif

If I try to View Image in Firefox it takes me to the correct URL also, but says it cannot be found.

I have indexes enabled on my server and can't even get an index of http://mydomainname.com/images/

The images/ dir is: drwxr-xr-x

The images in the images/ dir are all: -rw-rw-r--

I even tried root@host:/var/www/directory/images# chmod a+x * so that all the images were -rwxrwxr-x, but that didn't work either.

BTW, this is apache 1.3.33 on a Debian Sarge install, kernel 2.6.8. Should I send the httpd.conf?

-E

Are you mixing case? *NIX filesystems are case sensitive

You can post your httpd.conf if you like, but if you do, please post the output of grep -v '^#' httpd.conf which will remove all the comment lines.

Also, check the error log for the vhost(s) in question. Apache will log the file path that it tried to serve as well as the error code you're getting (404 is not found, 403 is forbidden, etc). Unless you have a pretty compelling reason not to, a URL to see the behavior would be helpful too (though if it's an internal or work related thing I completely understand not divulging that info).

Yeah, I know UNIX filesystems are case sensitive.

Ah-ha! WTF. Here's the error log output...

oak:/etc/apache/logs# tail -f mydomainname.com-error_log
[Tue Feb 8 15:57:21 2005] [error] [client x] File does not exist: /usr/share/images/ltologo178.jpg
[Tue Feb 8 15:57:21 2005] [error] [client x] File does not exist: /usr/share/images/anadelay.gif
[Tue Feb 8 15:57:21 2005] [error] [client x] File does not exist: /usr/share/images/ltoblur.gif
[Tue Feb 8 15:57:29 2005] [error] [client x] File does not exist: /usr/share/images/ltologo178.jpg

Why is it referencing a link like...

<img src="images/booya.gif">

...off /usr/share/ instead of off the directory that is making the reference???

I'd rather not provide the real URLs for security reasons, you understand. I think we're definitely getting close now. Shouldn't be necessary.

What's the DocumentRoot set to for the vhosts? It should be /path/to/your/docroot , but it looks like it's either set to /usr/local or not at all and being overriden from somewhere else. Do you have any RewriteRule or Alias(Match) directives in your httpd.conf?

Posting your conf might be in order if you can't figure it out.

Security reasons? This is a public site that you're making, right? If it's not secure, I'd not put it up

Debian by default has this alias setup in the httpd.conf

<IfModule mod_alias.c>
Alias /icons/ /usr/share/apache/icons/

<Directory /usr/share/apache/icons>
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Alias /images/ /usr/share/images/

<Directory /usr/share/images>
Options MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</IfModule>

All you need to do is comment out the Alias for /images/

Thanks much, everyone. That was the problem alright.

Fixed.

Score one for linuxquestions.org.

-E