Photos won't load from server

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If I export a web gallery to my hard drive and then load it with Explorer, it works fine. (Also w/Firefox). If I ftp it to my server and try and load it the images won't load. I have tried this with many of the templates, simple HTML, simple flash and others.

You can see what I mean here: http://www.fourwindsphotography.com/port html/index.html

Interestingly, if I upload a Slideshow Pro gallery it works fine:
http://www.fourwindsphotography.com/port SSP/index.html

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I suggest you try removing the space in your URL. AFIK spaces aren't allowed in URLs and I'm surprised any of it works. But then, maybe I'm just out of date. Cheers,
 
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[quote author=Bruce J link=topic=8697.msg586'8#msg586'8 date=126149329']
I suggest you try removing the space in your URL. AFIK spaces aren't allowed in URLs and I'm surprised any of it works. But then, maybe I'm just out of date. Cheers,

[/quote]Or convert the space to %2' (Space Char in Hex) IE is smart enough (or dumb enough) to convert spaces in URLs to their Hex equivalent.

The reason that the images on the web server won't load is because the path is probably wrong on the server. The Web server is likely not a Windows machine and the URL being passed to it is not handling the space as expected. The Web server is doing what it is supposed to do and that is stop reading a URL at the first space it encounters.

IE resolves your first image as "http://www.fourwindsphotography.com/port%2'html/content/bin/images/thumb/_H1F2222_Edit.jpg" I suspect this is not your actual physical location on the Web Server. And I expect the Web Server is looking for a pathe that in its complete form is :"http://www.fourwindsphotography.com/port". Open your FTP client and navigate to the path that you expect to find you images. Once you do locate your images, note how very different the path name is from "www.fourwindsphotography.com/port html/content/bin/images/thumb/"
Bruce is very much correct that spaces are not permitted in URLs. That Microsoft permits this should be a crime. Get rid of all your spaces in all your local paths. Replace them with "_" if you have to, but don't use them if you want to play with the rest of the kiddies in somebody elses sand box.
 
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And if it's a Windows based server (probably not, as Cletus says) the \bin\ will present a problem as well. That requires another hack to work around. Let us know if that's the case.
 
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[quote author=matonanjin link=topic=8697.msg59116#msg59116 date=1262284869]
I changed the path name to where it does not have a space in it and reuploaded with exactly the same results:

www.fourwindsphotography.com/portfolioLRHtlml/index.html

[/quote]You have a typo in the URL above. I think it should be: http://www.fourwindsphotography.com/portfolioLRHtml/ You have an extra 'l'.

The webpage is looking for images in this folder: http://www.fourwindsphotography.com/portfolioLRHtml/fourwindsphotography.com/portfoliolrhtml/content/bin/images/thumb/_H1F2222_Edit.jpg

Check your actual image location on the server for "_H1F2222_Edit.jpg" . You may have an issue assigning relative paths. You can eliminate this by assigning absolute paths or correcting the relative path in the calling web page ( http://www.fourwindsphotography.com/portfolioLRHtml/index.html ).
 
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[quote author=Brad Snyder link=topic=8697.msg58618#msg58618 date=12615114'9]
And if it's a Windows based server (probably not, as Cletus says) the \bin\ will present a problem as well. That requires another hack to work around. Let us know if that's the case.

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Brad,
You are absolutely correct. It is the Windows --> /Bin folder problem. After 1/2 hour on the phone with the Web Hosting tech we resolved that is the problem. More importantly after missing 1/2 hour of missing Oklahoma Stanford in the Sun Bowl. He did some patch to where the uploaded LR files will work.
 
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OK, then, Ron. Did the tech think that would also solve the problem with future uploads? Or will you be back in the same boat? If so, I remember that Sean McC had a hack workaround. I've just done a quick search of his site, and didn't see it, but if you think it'll be a problem in the future, let me know, and I'll figure it out. If I recall it's a fairly simply edit in one of the .lrwebengine template files.
 
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Mod note: fixed teeny-tiny typo in url tags

As always, you've got a good point Brad. He didn't specifically say "this will always work". But I got the impression that it was more of a permanent fix rather than a one time one.

I just uploaded another quick, fun one (http://www.fourwindsphotography.com/winter study) and it's working. I guess I cross my fingers! ::)

Thanks again.
 
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I'm a little late on this one but was wondering if you could tell me what the fix was. I am having the same challenges with my website. I can upload via ftp and even see it in the preview but when I launch the slide show (Airtight Simple Viewer) I get a message that the gallery cannot be found.

Wade
 
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Sounds like you may be being hit by the Windows server bin folder problem. Do you know if your web server is UNIX or Windows based?
 
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