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1. Daz333
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi all,

   I am currently developing some script to incorporate floating social media icons on my blog. I have the images that I require and these are located in my images folder that I uploaded using FTP.

   However, when I declare the image source URL, it does not find it and when trying to browse to the image using Internet Explorer, I get a 404 error message.

   I have tried uploading the images to different folders but I can't seem to browse to them. Can anyone offer any advice or assistance for this?

   Thanks,

   Darren

2. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   how, exactly are you doing it? What does your img src code look like?

3. Daz333
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi Rev. Voodoo

   My code looks like this:

   img src="http://www.spanishfootballtips.co.uk/images/follow.png

   I have tested the above code with a random link to an image of a page that I know works and it will display it on my page no problem, but when I use the link above it will not work. There must be some problem with it finding my image but I don't understand why as I have uploaded the image into my image folder but when I browse to my side address followed by /images/follow.png it will display a 404

4. Daz333
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   To clarify further,

   For example, Say I have a website called http://www.testwebsite.co.uk

   Within this site I have a folder named 'Images' and in this folder I upload all of the images that I wish to use on my site. I upload a twitter icon and name it follow us.png.

   In my sidebar code, I have Javascript which powers floating social media icons (facebook, rss, twitter etc). When I put the address to the twitter icon in my images folder I enter the following:

   http://www.testwebsite.co.uk/Images/follow us.png

   This link should tell my website to display the follow us.png icon in my Images folder, but it doesn't display it.

   I decide to test the icon and enter the address to the picture in my web browser. I enter in the following:

   http://www.testwebsite.co.uk/Images/follow us.png

   I am then taken to a 404 not found error page. I don't understand this as the image is in the above location but I can't get it to display on my website, nor can I browse to it when I use the full address. I'm sure this is a simple fix as I'm probably missing out a vital step but if someone could let me know how I can achieve this I would be grateful.

   Thanks

5. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hmm...that is strange. I see exactly what you are saying. I can see the url of your header image by inspecting your code, but I cannot directly access your image by url

   Does your host have some sort of hotlinking protection which may be interfering?

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