"Calling" an Image file from a subdomain

the image is located on the root domain

[Gian04]

Normally if you will display an image you will just do it this way

/images/imagename.jpg where the imagename.jpg was uploaded on my images folder

How will I display an image if it is located on my root domain and the page that will display it is on a subdomain

Do I really need to do it this way [http://subdomain.domain.com/images/imagename.jpg] ?

[Gian04]

I mean is there a way to do that NOT in absolute linking? Or do I really need to do it in absolute linking. Is there any disadvantage if I use an absolute compared with relative?

[wyweb]

Why not just copy the image to your subdomain?

[Gian04]

Because If I have 10 subdomains, I would also have 10 copies of my logo.gif file (and a lot of other image file). Thats a waste of disk space.

[swa66]

If you're worried about diskspace you could enable followsymlinks and symlink the files on the server, or even make hard links if they all are on the same filesystem. [Assuming a unix like OS + Apache]

You also could put all your images on http://images.example.com/ that's how quite a few of the big ones do it.

[edited by: tedster at 8:02 pm (utc) on Aug. 2, 2009]
[edit reason] de-link the example url [/edit]