help with displaying images

[m0rph]

i have set everything up to work on xp and iis. i can see everything fine useing http://localhost .... but when someone views from through my ip address the images are not displaying, i have noticed the links for images are looking for the localhost still. how can i change this so the images can be viewed externally?

 

any help would be gratefully aprieciated.

[Guest]

Update catalog/includes/configure.php

 define('HTTP_SERVER', '');

 

To your hostname/ ip.

 

Regards,

Rob

[m0rph]

thanks for replying, unfortunatly i tried what you sugested and found i still couldnt view the images.

[Guest]

You said you have this server online, can you give me an URL?

[m0rph]

the only way i can let you look at it is by giving you my ip adress eg. http://myipadd/ if you private message or if it ok to pm you id rather give my ip that way than have it shown on here.

[Guest]

Sure, just send it.

That's exactly what private msgs are for ;-)

[Guest]

OK, can you issue a

 

grep -nR localhost /path/to/your/osc/catalog > find_localhost.txt

 

and look over the resulting 'find_localhost.txt' to see where the stray localhost is defined?

Or paste it into the forum and I'll have a look.

 

Regards,

Rob

[m0rph]

i would issue that command but sounds like a stupid question, how dow issue that command, what do use? im running iis not apache if that makes any difference.

[Guest]

Sorry about that, I assumed a *NIX box.

 

The Windows translation of that command is roughly:

do a find on all files in your catalog directory containing the text localhost and save the result to a file.

 

Regards,

Rob

[m0rph]

this is my configure.php in catalogincludes not sure if there are other places which would have localhost as im not sure how to search every .php page to find it.

 

// Define the webserver and path parameters

// * DIR_FS_* = Filesystem directories (local/physical)

// * DIR_WS_* = Webserver directories (virtual/URL)

define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://localhost'); // eg, http://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers

define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://localhost'); // eg, https://localhost - should not be empty for productive servers

define('ENABLE_SSL', false); // secure webserver for checkout procedure?

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/catalog/'); // absolute path required

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');

define('DIR_WS_ICONS', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'icons/');

define('DIR_WS_INCLUDES', 'includes/');

define('DIR_WS_BOXES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'boxes/');

define('DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'functions/');

define('DIR_WS_CLASSES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'classes/');

define('DIR_WS_MODULES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'modules/');

define('DIR_WS_LANGUAGES', DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'languages/');

 

define('DIR_WS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'pub/');

define('DIR_FS_DOCUMENT_ROOT', 'D:');

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', 'D:/catalog/');

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'download/');

define('DIR_FS_DOWNLOAD_PUBLIC', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'pub/');

 

// define our database connection

define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost'); // eg, localhost - should not be empty for productive servers

define('DB_SERVER_USERNAME', '');

define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', '');

define('DB_DATABASE', 'xgidgets');

define('USE_PCONNECT', 'false'); // use persistent connections?

define('STORE_SESSIONS', ''); // leave empty '' for default handler or set to 'mysql'

?>

[Guest]

I think you misunderstood my earlier reply:

 

update

 define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://localhost');

define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://localhost');

 

to

 define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://your.ip.address.or.host');   

define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://your.ip.address.or.host');  

[m0rph]

sorry i must of miss understood, thanks for been so patient and helping me.

[Guest]

NP,

glad to help