I have this site deployed in IIS:
Now what I am trying to do is to show an image under the App_Data folder, the path being "App_Data/uploads/abc.jpg"
In code I have this:
<img src="~/App_Data/uploads/abc.jpg" alt="img">
and then I get a 404 error suggesting resource not found. When I inspected the sources tab in chrome dev tools I have this :
This means the App_Data folder was not even served in the request in the first place now how could I serve the folder, the folder contains images of my products. Also if someone could suggest if this is a good approach since there would be thousands of product images and I don't necessarily need to serve the entire folder for each request there has to be a better way, Thanks
In the iis request filtering, the app_data folder cannot be accessed, so I suggest creating a new folder and uploading image to this folder.
I have an index file that's store on my server under a public_html folder so it can be accessed publicly.
That address is http://example.com/randomlocation/anotherlocation/index.html
on the server that would look like public_html/randomlocation/anotherlocation/index.html
The problem however is that my css, js, and img files to display the page and run it are located on another level outside of the public html section and I'm having trouble specifying the relative or base path to get there, which would be something like:
home/site/folder/randomfolder/anotherfolder/location/styles.css
For Example:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://example.com/randomfolder/another folder/assets/css/emojione.min.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/home/examplesite/folder/folder/folder/folder/assets/css/styles.css" />
Doesn't seem to work. I've tried all variations of "/" relative paths and can't figure out what I'm missing to be able to pull those files.
Generally when a server has a public_html folder, the server is configured so that only files inside that folder will be accessible publicly via the web. (This way, you can have things like server configs and private files outside of public_html and people won't be able to get to them by just putting the url in their browser.)
In other words, you should move your css/js/images into public_html. You can put them in subdirectories to stay organized, but they should all be under public_html somewhere.
That is purposely not allowed as it would pose a huge security problem on the server. Take a look at this SO question for a possible work around.
php link to image file outside default web directory
Using Meteor I'm writing a framework that can serve custom themes in the /themes folder. I'd like the images of each theme to stay inside the corresponding theme folder.
From the Meteor documentation:
Lastly, the Meteor server will serve any files under the public
directory, just like in a Rails or Django project. This is the place
for images, favicon.ico, robots.txt, and anything else.
How can I serve images to clients from outside the /public folder?
Well, you have to think of /public as the root folder when Meteor is serving its content.
So if you have content in /public/themes/x.jpg when you are referring your image in HTML you would do something like /themes/x.jpg
If I'm not understanding your question correctly, please tell me so. I will try my best to answer.
I'm new to Meteor and I'm trying to understand how to serve static content - images, JS, etc.. I've followed the docs by creating the correct folder structure (which it doesn't really touch on) but making requests to this content just fails over to serving the main app page instead.
For instance - putting an image in "app_root"/public/image.png and making a request to localhost:3000/image.png just returns the main app page.
Any clue what I'm doing wrong here?
Thanks!
The setup you have described sounds correct to me. Media in public/ are served like
http://localhost:3000/myphoto.jpg
The todos example serves images from the public directory. Just back out of whatever project you're in and run: meteor create --example todos then cd into todos/ and run meteor. Then open:
http://localhost:3000/destroy.png
The image you will see lives in public/.
Meteor public folder not working
Use ./public directory for serving static assets.
Given the following directory structure:
- server
- client
- public
- css
- bootstrap.css
- images
- js
You could serve the static assets by dropping 'public' from linked documents.
<link href='/css/bootstrap.css'>
More info here: Official Meteor Docs #FileStructure
Files in /public are served to the client as-is. Use this to store
assets such as images. For example, if you have an image located at
/public/background.png, you can include it in your HTML with or in your CSS with background-image:
url(/background.png). Note that /public is not part of the image URL.
That same thing happened when I moved the project files in a folder and forget to move the directory .meteor.
edit I do not want to redirect pages, specific files etc. I would like to change the path where images, videos and other media are stored from the root source directory to the directory of my choosing. In this case c:/dev/prjfiles/prjname/public (c:/dev/prjfiles/prjname/ is my working directory) and i except when my html does img src="/pic.png" it will find the image in c:/dev/prjfiles/prjname/publi/pic.png. I need a working solution, i tried looking at how to set virtual directories and etc. I cant figure it out. Thus the bounty. I am generating the html, i am not writing asp:image runat="server" etc i am pulling data from a DB and outputing the html. The part that is still a WIP is the code that handles POST request. The html already exist but i cant have hundreds of files in site.com/here pollution my source directory (c:/dev/trunk/thisprj/thisprj/where my .aspx files are and i do not wish 500 .png/gif/jpg here)
I dont know how asp.net environments are usually set up. I am assuming i have a root path that is not available from the web, a bin/ where i may put my asp.net dll and a public where i stick in any files i want.
I would like to have my project files seperated from everything else. My JS, css and image files are in prjfiles/prjname/public with my sqlite db in prjfiles/prjname/ and extra binaries in prjfiles/prjname/bin.
The problem comes when i run my app and try to load an image. Such as /cssimg/error.png. My project does not find resource in my /public folder and i have no idea how to make it find them. How can i set my project up so it does?
NOTE: I set the working directory path so its at prjfiles/prjname/. In code i write ./bin/extrabin.exe and db.sqlite3 which access the files properly.
You might want to watch the getting started videos for ASP.NET
http://www.asp.net/get-started/
EDIT: More info added
As #Murph suggests, your assumptions are incorrect.
IIS takes care of blocking HTTP access to any important files and folders like your *.aspx.cs, and *.cs in the App_Code, any DLLs, anything under the App_Data directory and the web.config.
Content files, such as *.html, *.css, *.js, .gif, .jpg, .png are all served in the normal manner.
In this way, there is no need for a "public" folder.
I dont know how asp.net environments are usually set up. I am assuming i have a root path that is not available from the web, a bin/ where i may put my asp.net dll and a public where i stick in any files i want.
This is wrong assumption!
You have a root folder, which IS available in public. You set IIS or ASP.NEt Development Server to this folder.
(optional, but always needed) You have a web.config file in this root folder for configuration
You have a bin folder for your assemblies (each page or user control "include" compiles to a class)
(optional) You have App_Data as default folder for file-based DBs and/or other data files (say XML storage, ..)
(optional) You have an App_theme folder for styling and images. Read about ASP.NET themes.
(optional) You can add App_Code folder if you want to add classes to be compiled by the server.
You can create folders for scripts, etc...
Normally for complex logic, etc.. you create in a separate project outside the root and reference the result assembly in the bin folder.
Seriously, you cannot do ASP.NET work without an IDE or a manual. Visual Web Developer 2008 Express IDE is free and http://asp.net has tons of resources for getting started.
I don't know if I got the question right, but maybe you could try the <BASE> HTML tag.
HTML <base> Tag
"Specify a default URL and a default target for all links on a page"
There's a nice and simple example at W3Schools, check it out.
The negative side is that you need to put a <BASE> tag in each page you want.
It sounds like you should be able to create a virtual directory to do what you're asking -- but it's a very non-standard setup.
Keep in mind that IIS will prevent users from downloading DLLs and other project-level files, so you usually don't need to partition them off in a separate layer.
For example, just have a cssimg folder at the top level of your project, and skip the whole public folder thing.
I see where you're coming from. ASP.NET projects are set up a little differently from how you're treating them, but you can make them work like you want.
The root of an ASP.NET project IS publicly accessible. When you created your WebSite within Visual Studio, it created a default.aspx page right on the root. Are you hosting in IIS? If so, it's set up to serve up default.aspx by default. But I digress.
Here's how to make it work like you want (mostly):
Create a WebSite, then right-click the site and add a folder named "prjfiles". Right-click that folder and make another named "public". Create another subfolder of that one called "cssimg".
Now, if you want to use the image you mentioned, you'd reference it like this: "~/prjfiles/public/cssimg/error.png" (pathing starting with the root) or "./cssimg/error.png" if you're coming from a page in the public folder (relative pathing).
Really, though, you're doing too much work. Here's how to make it work with less effort:
Create your WebSite, right-click the project and add a folder called "cssimg".
Treat the root as you would the "public" folder- put your pages right there on the root or in subfolders, as needed. You can reference that same image file like this now: "./cssimg/error.png" (relative) or "~/cssimg/error.png" (start from root)
There's also another way to tell the engine where to look for resources, but it's for your css files. Inside the "head" tag, you can add a "style" element (with type="text/css") and inside that you can add something like this: #import '<%= ResolveUrl("~/prjfiles/public/cssimg/styles.css") %>';
Good luck!
If I correctly understood your problem, you're trying to find files which aren't physically stored on a filesystem folder, or stay on a different folder. You can deal with this problems by implementing a UrlRewrite mechanism.
I suggest you to read URL Rewriting in ASP.NET and, after, to take a look into this implementation: A Complete URL Rewriting Solution for ASP.NET 2.0.
If I understand all this correctly (please comment with any correction) right now all your files are together in the root directory and you use <img src="/img.png" /> and it works.
If this is the case, make another directory in the directory the images are in, say call that directory images and put the image files there. now use <img src="/images/img.png" />.
Done.