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Background Image - Won't Show on Secure Server?

Can't get a CSS bg image to show on an https..

Nick_W

9:54 am on Jan 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi all,

For the life of me I just can't work out why my background image won't show on an https?

I've tried relative and abslute url's (the image works fine on the normal server) to no avail. The image is stored on the secure server.

Does anyone have any insight as to what may be causing this?

Many thanks...

<added>Works on an internal sheet but, not on an external</added>

Nick

ann

11:41 am on Jan 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

I store mine in the same secure folder with the forms I use and use a relative path...never had any problems with it.

Nick_W

3:11 pm on Jan 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks ann, I never worked out why but the external just won't work. Well, an internal does just fine though...

Nick

Birdman

3:14 pm on Jan 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

Nick, where is the external sheet located?

Nick_W

3:15 pm on Jan 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

On the secure server. shows the style/layout fine. No bg image though...

Nick

Birdman

3:15 pm on Jan 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

Nick, where is the external sheet located? Does the rest of the stylesheet work and just the background image not show?

OOOOOPS!

Birdman

4:09 pm on Jan 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm dumbfounded as usual ;)

It's either got to be a server glitch or somehow the path isn't right.

did you try to call the image from the webpage(not as a background)?

Nick_W

4:17 pm on Jan 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

Works just fine as a bg image from an internal sheet. and other calls to images are fine also...

Nick

WibbleWobble

5:19 pm on Jan 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

Perhaps the secure server reading the html file reading the css file reading the image isn't happy about having to ferret around to figure out whether its allowed? I don't know, I'm guessing. I'm going home!

(Also, much of that sentence seems like grammatical hammer horror)

dingman

5:44 pm on Jan 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

For what it's worth, I've got one that's working just fine. I'll sticky you the URL if you want to look at the code, but there's nothing in it that wouldn't be immediately obvious to you.

Nick_W

5:47 pm on Jan 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks dingman, just post it here, (ommiting any references of course!) -- Would like to compare..

Nick

dingman

7:15 pm on Jan 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>@import demo</title>


<style type="text/css">
@import url(test.css);
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
Hi, Nick. This uses SSL for everything. :)
</p>
<p>
It doesn't seem to matter whether I @import or <link> the style sheet.
</p>
</body>
</html>

body {
background-image: url(https://my.server.tld/photos/2002/Gerth-Dingman.jpg);
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 2em;
color: blue;
}