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Abby Roe
Abby Roe
6,375 Points
Posted by Abby Roe
Abby Roe
6,375 Points

Photo files not working when page loaded from files

I am on the 'Working on a Website Project Locally' video in the HTML Basics course, Web Design track, and found some trouble. When I open my web page from files, the images on my page aren't shown, while if I open my web page via the Treehouse Workspace, the images load fine.

When I try to go to the article.html page from the web page opened from files, it gives me an error saying that my file couldn't be accessed. I tried to troubleshoot but couldn't figure out how to fix it. What should I do?

Thanks!

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

When working on a site from both a server and local files, it's important to make all resource references (href values) be relative. (so not starting with "http://"). Then, you must be careful to replicate the folder arrangement in both places.

So, for example, if you have a reference like img/photo.jpg that works on the server, you must have an "img" folder inside the folder where you local page is, and the "photo.jpg" file must be inside that "img" folder.

Abby Roe
Abby Roe
6,375 Points
Abby Roe
Abby Roe
6,375 Points

Thank you for your advice! I went and double-checked everything, and I realized that I didn't unzip the file. In the video, it didn't say anything about unzipping the file, only to click on it to open it.

Thanks again!