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1. bmather9
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   My site's background pictures load sometimes, and other times they don't. Whats the deal? There's supposed to be a black bar behind the title and a few other sidebar images. Seems totally random to me.

   http://offcolor.xtreemhost.com/

2. kmessinger
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I see the black bar behind the title in IE9, 8 and 7.

   Just a note: The color test cost me a admission to West Point. I went on to Special Forces and left as a Captain. The military is totally screwed up when it comes to color tests. Good luck!

3. SwansonPhotos
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I see the images also, try clearing your browser cache - this happens often when a file is modified or css is...etc...

   Also, I was all set to do Navy Nuclear Electronics ROTC, 5 years paid (+ a 7.5 year pay back) - I am not color blind but am color deficient, I have a hard time seeing the difference in dark shades of green or blue...which I found out on pre-entry exam (my sister used to tease me at times about wearing one dark green and one dark blue sock on sundays...then I knew why)...the navy then said you can be sailor that is all...I did neither...small world, eh?

   By the time I was 30 I was making double what most in the navy do after ten years - no loss to me...

   That said, my Son is currently deployed...Godspeed, Son! Hoorah!

4. bmather9
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   That's awesome to hear 2 replies both with their own color vision story with in 1 hour! I hope I can get my information all organized so people can use it.

   That being said, my problem still stands. I've been testing with IE9 and chrome. When I came back to the computer and read the latest posts, I checked my site and everything worked. Now a few minutes later and I no longer see my background black bar and other pics. I've cleared cache and there is no change. Maybe it's my hosting service causing the problem?

5. SwansonPhotos
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   What browser and version are you using?

6. bmather9
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I experience this problem in every browser I've tried:

   IE 9.0.8112.16421
   Chrome 16.0.912.77 m
   firefox 5.0

   Also Opera mini on my android phone and chrome on my google tv exhibit the same problem

7. SwansonPhotos
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Are you using a caching plugin or have configured your server to cache files?

8. bmather9
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   No cache plugins; no plugins active at all

   I didn't configure any server cache, so unless it was by default? I can't find any settings dealing with cache in my xtreemhost free account.

9. bmather9
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   And now my images just came back for the first time since my post about 45 mins ago where I said they went away.

10. bmather9
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    And just like that, they're not showing up again now.

11. SwansonPhotos
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    You may want to check your own computer for issues, as we said, we see them...

12. bmather9
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    I've started testing on my second computer also; things seem to be working fine right now. Maybe it has something to do with me being logged into wordpress? I'm gonna give up on it for now and see how it does.

13. kmessinger
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    The only image I see is the black bar, http://www.offcolor.co.cc/wp-content/themes/adhesive/images/img01.jpg

    I don't find any source code for other images. Where are they supposed to be?

    [edit] Found the rest in the css. They are all loading fine for me in IE9.

14. bmather9
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Well, the problem still exists. If you haven't seen the page load without the black background then you are just lucky because I've seen it fail to load on 2 computers in chrome, IE, safari, and firefox. Aslo seen it fail on my google tv browser and in multiple browsers on my android smartphone.

    Sometimes it just works, other times it doesn't. I clear cache, but that doesn't really seem to matter. When it starts working again a simple refresh will load the images. I'm really starting to think its a problem with my free web hosting service.

15. kmessinger
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    How about a Z index. Assign a low number to the background and a higher number to the images on top. Another thing is relative url's. WP doesn't like them because of the way pages are dynamically built.
    Try absolute urls.

16. kmessinger
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Ok. It finally loaded bad for me to. CSS has some errors that may be the problem. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3a%2f%2fwww.offcolor.co.cc%2f

17. bmather9
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Below is a copy paste of my .htaccess file, I don't know much about this so let me know if anything looks messed up:

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END WordPress

    ErrorDocument 503 http://error.xtreemhost.com/503.shtml
    ErrorDocument 502 http://error.xtreemhost.com/502.shtml
    ErrorDocument 505 http://error.xtreemhost.com/505.shtml
    ErrorDocument 401 http://error.xtreemhost.com/401.shtml
    ErrorDocument 500 http://error.xtreemhost.com/500.shtml
    ErrorDocument 403 http://error.xtreemhost.com/403.shtml
    ErrorDocument 400 http://error.xtreemhost.com/400.shtml
    ErrorDocument 408 http://error.xtreemhost.com/408.shtml
    ErrorDocument 501 http://error.xtreemhost.com/501.shtml
    ErrorDocument 405 http://error.xtreemhost.com/405.shtml
    ErrorDocument 415 http://error.xtreemhost.com/415.shtml
    ErrorDocument 404 http://error.xtreemhost.com/404.shtml
    ErrorDocument 504 http://error.xtreemhost.com/504.shtml

    php_value display_errors on
    php_value error_append_string none

18. kmessinger
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    That looks fine to me.

19. bmather9
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Ok. It finally loaded bad for me to. CSS has some errors that may be the problem. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3a%2f%2fwww.offcolor.co.cc%2f

    I could of sworn I ran my CSS through that tool and it said no errors before. But anyway, I removed that random apostrophe that was sitting in the code and the images are loading now. I'll keep testing and see if it's consistent now.

20. kmessinger
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Your server is running PHP version 5.1.6 but WordPress 3.3.1 requires at least 5.2.4.

    What I get now.

21. bmather9
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Ok well that was short lived, now my page doesn't load and displays "Your server is running PHP version 5.1.6 but WordPress 3.3.1 requires at least 5.2.4.".

    Funny thing is my host isn't actually running 5.1.6, it says they are running 5.2.17

    I can't even log in to my wordpress.

22. bmather9
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    All I did was delete an apostrophe from the CSS, there'e no way that could cause this error right?

    It's gotta be a problem with the host now?

23. bmather9
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Ok so the site came back on its own, but I still have the problem of images not loading sometimes.

    I've noticed when they're not loading, that I can't navigate to them directly. For example the link http://offcolor.xtreemhost.com/wp-content/themes/adhesive/images/img01.jpg gives me an Error 403.

    But during the periods when my images are working, the same link will display the picture properly.

    Any ideas?

24. kmessinger
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Your image is here, http://www.offcolor.co.cc/wp-content/themes/adhesive/images/img01.jpg not at website.com

    BTW, when you get the 303 error your host brings up http://serw.clicksor.com which brings up ads, at least one of which had a virus.

25. bmather9
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Both of those domains should point to my site, so shouldn't the image work from either one?

    Right now, the first link displays my picture: http://offcolor.xtreemhost.com/wp-content/themes/adhesive/images/img01.jpg

    The second link gives me the 403 error: http://www.offcolor.co.cc/wp-content/themes/adhesive/images/img01.jpg

26. kmessinger
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    The 403 error was caused by
    •Access to a private or password protected folder was attempted

27. bmather9
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Sounds like file permissions? So what should the permissions be for those images and the folders containing them?

    Side note: I created my own error pages to get rid of those ones my host has that are full of pop ups.

28. bmather9
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Ok, so I took one of the images that was sporadically loading or not loading, hosted it somewhere else and linked to it. Now when the images stop working, the one that I linked to somewhere else loads properly but none of the others.

    So I can't explain why they load sometimes and not others, but it seems unlikely that it has anything to do with wordpress.

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