topic Re: Images not visible in Preview in Alfresco Archive

Images not visible in Preview

willson — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:19:05 GMT

In a Web Project, reduced to its simplest form with an index.html and a jpg in /assets/images/, the virtualization server is not seeing the image file as called in a line such as <img border="none" src="/assets/images/logos/sample.jpg"… of the html. It will see src="./assets/… or src="assets/… bu

Re: Images not visible in Preview

willson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:40:04 GMT

Additional info
It's not just images; it's links too. Anything href or src from root (with a diagonal slash) also fails to be found or linked.
Note: The part of the project being previewed is in a Webapp folder, not in ROOT.

So the question becomes… how to configure WCM Preview for a Webapp Flolder so that href and src and img find their targets if written with a leading slash to indicate root?

The preview url is something like

http://admin.alfrescosample.www--sandbox.94-294-194-94.ip.alfrescodemo.net:8180/docroot‍

Re: Images not visible in Preview

sethatrothbury — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:54:31 GMT

Did you set the "isVirtualWebappRelative" property correctly in your ssi servlet/filter?

Re: Images not visible in Preview

willson — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:15:10 GMT

Thanks for the pointer. That did happen to be set correctly.
But it led me to

<!– IMPORTANT: To use the SSI servlet, you also need to rename the       –>
<!–            $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/servlets-ssi.renametojar file   –>
<!–            to $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib/servlets-ssi.jar             –>‍‍‍

which was a step I hadn't done. I did the rename and stopped/started the virtual server.
It's still not working as desired. It seems to be caching some old versions of files (its not the browser cache; I checked). I'll have to go in and make sure everything is clean.

I looked, again, into the Alfresco documentation of this topic - - isVirtualWebappRelative gets no mention at all in online documentation and Server Side Includes only a passing mention; nothing relevant. The documentation situation with Alfresco makes me crazy. It makes a seemingly excellent product remarkably discouraging to use.

Re: Images not visible in Preview

sethatrothbury — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:01:46 GMT

Are you using the Servlet or the Filter? Other things to check would be that you have the right extensions turned on for your virtualization. ex:


    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>ssi</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>ssi</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
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Just don't set it to "/". It does not like that… at all.