Hi,

Sorry if this question has been covered before, I’m very new to Expression Engine :S

I’m currently writing my first template but having trouble linking to my images. I have an index.php file, stored in my physical folder under /public_html/sitedesign/site/index.php. I’d like to place my design graphic assets under publish_html/sitedesign/site/image/ but can’t seem to figure out how this is achieved.

I’ve tried {site_url}/sitedesign/site/image/ with no luck.

Any help very welcome.

Hi Martin,

If your base site url is say :

http://www.example.com/sitedesign/site

that should then become your {site_url} variable so to get something that is physically located at :

http://www.example.com/sitedesign/site/image/

you should (well I’m pretty sure you should anyway) be able to get to it like this :

{site_url}/image/

or even easier just do this :

/image/

Shorter and sweeter. Does that work for you maybe?

Also just so that I totally understand what you have done if you view the image in your browser what do you have to type in to get to it? You said that you have an index.php file stored where you say you have but is that the main ExpressionEngine index.php file or something else?

Best wishes,

Mark

Wow thanks for the quick reply:)

Background:

I have set the .htaccess to hide index.php in the site URL, so the site’s URL reads domain.com.

I have set ‘Basepath to Template File Directory’ in ‘Global Template Preferences’ to place file at /home/sandshor/public_html/sitedesign.

The index template is located at /home/sandshor/public_html/sitedesign/site.

I’ve tried {site_url}sitedesign/site/images/logo.png, {site_url}/images/logo.png and /images/logo.png without any luck.

Entering the URL to the image manually within the browser also fails to display the image. Could the issue be related to an internal setting with the .htaccess file.

Content of .htaccess below;

I’m not too good with .htaccess files unfortunately. I just use one of the methods from the WIKI and it usually works for me so I don’t think I will be much help there but if you can’t even access the image in a browser in the normal fashion then I would think that there is probably something up with the .htaccess file or something somewhere.

Perhaps try taking out the .htaccess file for now and see if you can then access the image in the normal way and then work up from there.

I’m sure other people around here will have some ideas on the .htaccess file though.

Best wishes,

Mark