hi folks, can you help with this?
my images wont display in my testing server! but they display fine on the remote site (thankfully)

ok more detail:

when i right click the image on the remote site, the properrties show the url as

http://site-n.co.uk/images/pic.jpg

however on the testing server there is no image, just the little red x

i right click to see the properties, and the url is:

http://localhost/images/pic.jpg

This is wrong, and it should read

http://localhost/site-n/images/pic.jpg



i have several sites in my htdocs folder, so the site root should be http://localhost/site-n



Now, my site definition settings:

Local
=====
Site Name = site-n
local root folder = D:\webs\site-n
local images folder = D:\webs\site-n\images
http address = http://localhost/site-n

Remote
=====
Access=FTP
host = ftp.site-n.co.uk
host dir = /htdocs/
user, pass etc, all work ok, connects


Testing Server
=============
Server Model = PHP MySQL
access=FTP
host = 127.0.0.1
directory = /site-n/
user pass etc ok connects fine
url prefix = http://localhost-site-n



I have either done something stupid, not done something, or something like that! The only thing that changed (I upgraded my server btw but it all went seamlessly)was the site definition. Now like I say when I publish it keeps looking in the wrong path for the images...



Any help would be absolutely superb! It's 3:29am and I've been at this for far too long!

Cheers Everyone!!
The Del Boy




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I got it! And figured something way cool out at the same time!

It had nothing to do with the dreamweaver site definition! Instead it had something to do with "VHosts" in apache, which says that depending what you type in, like http://localhost, depends which folder it will put you in as the root!

The bonus of this is that you can create all sorts of fake website names that will point to localhost, but the virtual host definition in the conf file dictates which folders content you'll see.

so now I have http://www.website1.dev pointing at my site!
and I have http://i.cant.believe.this.works pointing at another folder in my htdocs! It's now 6:23am! thank god for coffee!

Anyway I thought you might all like this link because it show you how to set it up, it's a piece of cake!
http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/20.../virtual_host/



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