Re: [cobalt-users] strange image problem

[Michael Gabriel <mgabriel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

ls -al
look if a .htaccess file is in there ...

Brendan wrote:

> I just noticed a problem with my raq550. I migrated a site from my old server
> (it was an old HP) to my 550. When I was done everything appeared to be okay -
>  except I couldn't load images from my ~images directory.
>
> http://mysite.com/images/pic.gif would not work no matter what.
>
> ls -l returned:
> drwxrwxr--    2 almostx  site7        4096 Jan 28  2003 images
> and
> -rwxrwxr-x    1 almostx  site7        4240 Sep 14 09:51 pic.gif
>
> **this should work since the directory and image are both readable by all.
>
> when I did 'chmod 777 images' it resolved the problem. When I copied pic.gif
> to the root directory I could bring it up in a browser no problem. My guess
> is that something virtual is happening - does the admin server look for
> authentication for ~/images/~ directory similar to the way it does for the
> ~/stats/~ directory?
>
> Thanks again in advance.
>
> Brendan