Problem uploading Gif files...

[nick106b]

Hi all,
I've been uploading images to my public.html folder, but they didn't show on the pages. So I went into public.html/images folder - uploaded into that, and got the same result. What am I doing wrong? (This time...!)
TIA, Nick.

[Early Out]

Where are the pages expecting to find them? If the call in your html is, for example:

<img src="mylogo.gif">

then the .gif file needs to be in the same directory as the html file. If the call is:

<img src="mypics/mylogo.gif">

then the .gif file needs to be in the "mypics" directory directly beneath whatever directory the html is in.

[nick106b]

No mypics folder.
The Images folder was in the Public HTML directory and I thought the gif's should have been picked up from there. When they wer'ent I put them back in the public html folder - but they still did not show. So where do I go from here. This is using cPanel, by the way...

[Early Out]

You're not getting this. Somewhere inside the html code for your webpage, the page is pointing to the image files. Those files need to be whereever the html code is pointing to. Without seeing your html code, I can't tell you where that is. I was just using "mypics" as a hypothetical example.

You have to open up the webpage file, and find out where it thinks the picture files are. Whereever it thinks the .gif files are, that's where they need to be, or it won't be able to find them!

[nick106b]

The pages point to a sub-folder "AB New" where all the gif files are.
I really do not understand why they do not show when I upload them.
They do show in the cPanel public html folder, so they should show on the individual pages. Or am I missing something? (Still!)

[areidmtm]

Post your HTML code. We really can't help you much more if we're kept in the dark

[Early Out]

Mystery solved!! Folders (directories) on the server can not have names with spaces in them, so "AB New" is going to fail on uploading. Same rule for filenames.

To keep yourself from getting wrapped around the axle, the best practice is to restrict your file and folder names to a-z, 0-9, dash (-), and underbar(_). Don't use any spaces or other special characters.

I'd keep it all lowercase, too - no capital letters. Why? Because file names on the server are case-sensitive. "Mydog.jpg" and "Mydog.JPG" and "mydog.jpg" are three different files. If you stick to lowercase all the time, you won't get confused (been there, done that ).

So, rename everything in the folder on your PC where you're building your pages to follow these rules, then rebuild the pages and upload them.

[nick106b]

EARLY OUT you are still missing the point.
These gif files are from a 'resell' file copied into Frontpage. All the gif's were saved into a folder on my hard drive "AB NEW". This is a sub folder to my "Webs" folder, where the pages of this site are stored.
All the gif's are in lower case, some with _ underscores in the titles... But - that is not the problem. Its when I load them into my 'public/html' fo;der in cPanel, because whether I load them into the 'public/html' or into the sub-folder 'public.html/images, they do not show on the uploaded pages - even after "refresh". Does that clarify my case?
I'm green, but not that green... Cheers, Nick.

[lazynitwit]

Mystery solved!! Folders (directories) on the server can not have names with spaces in them, so "AB New" is going to fail on uploading. Same rule for filenames.

To keep yourself from getting wrapped around the axle, the best practice is to restrict your file and folder names to a-z, 0-9, dash (-), and underbar(_). Don't use any spaces or other special characters.

This is not true, you can have spaces in directories and filenames. If they are having a problem uploading, it may be an issue with the program you are using. I do agree that you should not use spaces in files/directories though.

EARLY OUT you are still missing the point.
These gif files are from a 'resell' file copied into Frontpage. All the gif's were saved into a folder on my hard drive "AB NEW". This is a sub folder to my "Webs" folder, where the pages of this site are stored.
All the gif's are in lower case, some with _ underscores in the titles... But - that is not the problem. Its when I load them into my 'public/html' fo;der in cPanel, because whether I load them into the 'public/html' or into the sub-folder 'public.html/images, they do not show on the uploaded pages - even after "refresh". Does that clarify my case?
I'm green, but not that green... Cheers, Nick.

The folder should be public_html unless you are uploading them to a sub-folder within that folder.

[Early Out]

I surrender, nick106b. You clearly understand the problem better than I do. Hope you find a solution.