Unable to access static resources from workarea using absolute URL

I have an image in WORKAREA/rsc/contrib/image/myimage.png

When I try to preview a page which contains this image, the image loads perfectly. When I try to access this image alone by framing a URL as http://<teamsite_Host>/rsc/contrib/image/myimage.png it returns 404 error.

The image path is rendered as <img src="/rsc/contrib/image/myimage.png"> in the page. However in page preview I see a 302 redirect to /iw-mount/default/main/....../rsc/contrib/image/myimage.png and then the image loads fine in the page.

But this 302 redirect does not happen when I try to load the image alone separately in a browser window using absolute URL.

Can anybody help me understand why does the same image loads perfectly when accessed within a page preview, but fails to load when accessing separately using absolute URL.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Adam Stoller

I think the issue is that when you do a Preview of content, it is rendered via the "customer web server" with an implicit doc-root of the current workarea - and thus the workarea-relative path to the image works.

However, when you try to access the image directly using the relative path you're doing so outside of the "customer web server" and/or without the implicit doc-root of the current workarea. It will work if you provide the fully explicit vpath or if you navigate to the actual directory .../WORKAREA/rsc/contrib/image and then click on the image file, myimage.png.

FInally, the question arises - why do you care about being (or not being) able to access http://<teamsite_Host>/rsc/contrib/image/myimage.png - which is not a valid URI unless you explicitly map /rsc/ to the full mount point to the workarea?

nipper

There are also tokens in SitePublisher that will help

Read the TS Site Developers Guide, look for page tokens (specifically $URL_PREFIX)

Finally, are you adding this directly or with TinyMCE ? There is a defect, yet unfixed (AFAIK) where TinyMCE hard codes the server information if you add a non-DCR text area with an embedded image.

TeamsiteDev

If you are using Sitepublisher you can use $URL_PREFIX , if not then you will have to set Proxy server redirects in iw.cfg for your workarea. check Teamsite Admin guide, maybe you can set appropriate regex under [iwproxy_preconnect_redirect] or [iwproxy_preconnect_remap] .

Bowker

Assuming you are using SitePublisher, look at the TeamSite SitePublisher Developer Guide for "Page Tokens". In the 7.2 manual it's on page 96.

One thing is the $URL_PREFIX token (as with all the page tokens) are translated as the page is sent to the client/browser. From within the component you do not have access to the value of $URL_PREFIX. In our environment the value of $URL_PREFIX contains the trailing slash. So when we include images we use something like: <img src="$URL_PREFIXimages/graphic.png"....>

Good luck.

amitsb

Hello Ankit,

I am trying to create a custom JSP which is placed within the iw-cc web application in JBosss. This JSP will then be linked with a custom menu item in CC Pro.

Now when I refer to some images using $URL_PREFIX in this JSP, I simply get "$URL_PREFIX" text rendered in the browser, it does not get processed and converted to the patch.

Bowker

That is a different issue entirely. The substitutions are performed by LiveSite. I consider custom menu items as stand-alone apps. There is probably some method you can call within CSSDK to get the correct path but I'm not sure. I would start by digging through the CSSDK docs and see what you can find.

Maybe someone has the specific call you need.

Rick Poulin

Confirming bowker's reply. In a CCPro menu option, you're passed the current context vpath as a parameter. You can determine the current workarea from that, and then construct a path yourself as "/iw/cci/meta/no-injection" + areavpath + "/assets/hello.jpg" or something similar.
PS - the confusion in this thread stems from you posting your query in the wrong forum. Might want to watch for that next time Smiley Happy