Re: [htmltmpl] Problem accessing directories through .tmpl files

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Sharad,

The paths to your image files (and css, js, etc) are relative to the
CGI script. The folder that the .tmpl file is in is irrelevant.
Also filesystem paths are irrelevant: it's the website paths you need
to know.

e.g. if the CGI is at "/cgi-bin/sample/display.pl"
Then the image files must be somewhere inside the "htdocs" folder for
the webserver to be able to serve them.
So if an image is at "/images/pic.jpg",
then the IMG tag source should either be:
src="/images/pic.jpg"
which is an 'absolute' path in relation to the web-root.
or:
src="../../images/pic.jpg"
which is relative to the path of the CGI file.

Remember, any files referenced from a webpage, such as an image or css
file, must be within your htdocs folder.
They aren't magically included by the CGI, they are requested by your
browser, and so must be visible to the webserver.

Hope this helps,
Carl

>>> Kasturirangan Rangaswamy <kas...@ya...> 24/11/2004
04:26:42 >>>
Hi,

   I have a small Perl Script that calls a .tmpl file A.tmpl. This
.tmpl file has two <TMPL_INCLUDE> statements that include two other
files B.tmpl and C.tmpl. 

   Files A,B and C are in the same directory. I am able to display the
three of them as a single HTML file. No problems till here.

   Now, the B.tmpl and C.tmpl files access images stored in yet
another
directory (NOTE: Also tested by putting them in same directory and
that
is not working either!!!). Those images are not getting displayed.

   Below are the details (Consider 
                       ROOT=/usr/local/apache/htdocs/homepages)

Main Perl Script (present in ROOT/software/cgi-bin/sample/)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use HTML::Template;
my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename =>
"$ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/software/html/Index.tmpl");
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print $template->output;
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Index.tmpl (present in ROOT/software/html/)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
<TMPL_INCLUDE top_screen.tmpl>
<TABLE>some table items that do not refer to images/CSS and have not
been included here</TABLE>
<TMPL_INCLUDE bottom_screen.tmpl>
------------------------------------------------------------------------

top_screen.tmpl (present in ROOT/software/html/)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<!-- saved from url=(0034)http://www.uc.edu/softwareinstall/ -->
<!--- top header included in another file---><HTML><HEAD><TITLE>UCit -
Software Distribution</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252"><LINK
href="main.css" rel=stylesheet>
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1476" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=800 border=0>
  <TBODY>
  <TR>
    <TD colspan=3><IMG alt=""
      src="banner_software.gif" border=0><IMG
      alt="" src="banner_right.gif"
    border=0></TD>
  </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD width=616>
      <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=616 align=left
border=0>
        <TBODY>
        <TR>
          <TD width=48><IMG height=37 alt=""
            src="menu_left_middle.gif"
            width=48 border=0></TD>
        </TR>
      </TABLE>
    </TD>
  </TR>
  </TBODY>
</TABLE>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

bottom_screen.tmpl (present in ROOT/software/html/)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=800 border=0>
<TBODY>
        <TR>
          <TD colSpan=4><BR><IMG height=49
              src="footer.gif" width=800
              useMap=#footer border=0></TD></TR>
  </TBODY>
</TABLE>
<!--
<MAP name=footer><AREA shape=RECT alt=Search coords=34,8,95,39><AREA
shape=RECT alt="Site map" coords=108,8,188,39>
                 <AREA shape=RECT alt="Contact us" coords=202,8,293,39
href="http://www.ucit.uc.edu/contactus.asp">
                 <AREA shape=RECT alt="UCit home" coords=305,8,402,39
href="http://www.ucit.uc.edu/">
</MAP>-->

</BODY>
</HTML>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Though the 3 .tmpl files are getting displayed in one page,
none of the '.gif' or '.css' files in top_screen.tmpl and
bottom_screen.tmpl get displayed. Their actual location is
ROOT/software/images/ but I put them in the same directory as the
.tmpl
files hoping they would work but they don't.

Any idea why this might be happening?

Thanks,
Sharad

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