No Images in Navbar-Dropdowns (vb 3.6.2 Integration)

cellarius · November 7th, 2006, 06:43 AM

Hi,

please have a look at http://www.roma-antiqua.de/forum/galerie

Although all my paths seem to be correct (double and triple-checked), the little arrows that vB shows next to the navbar dropdowns do not show. This can best be seen in IE 6, since Firefox just omitts them wheras IE shows those nasty boxes.

Other images taken from vB (for instances the forum-expander buttons) do work, so this does not seem just to be a path problem (the img-tags do not show up in the source of the page). As I have modified the navbar, I already restored the original navbar template in vB - to no avail.

Any hints as to what the problem might be? If need be I would be willing to offer admin-access to the Forum and PP to a support-official.

Yours
Sven

cellarius · November 7th, 2006, 06:55 AM

Now I'm completely confused.

When I follow the link I provided in the previous post, I get the following error:

Quote:

main(./includes/functions_showthread.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /galerie/header-inc.php (Zeile 115)

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required './includes/functions_showthread.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in [DOC_ROOT DELETED]/forum/galerie/header-inc.php on line 115

If I hit reload, the forum index loads just as it should. But this only seems to work, if I have been in the admin-center with this browser before. Yes, I flushed all my caches...

Sven

cellarius · November 7th, 2006, 07:06 AM

Funny thing: I have opened my pp index page in one tab of firefox by simply manually copying the url from the above link to a clean tab. But if I follow the link, I get that error...

And: The same behaviour when using vB 3.6 standard style.

Sven

cellarius · November 7th, 2006, 07:54 AM

So, if your saying: Thats all somewhat confunsing and I don't know, what he's talking about, that link works perfectly well: I just figured out that the error appears only when I'm logged in to the Forum. If I log out and try the link, the page loads correctly.

Sven

Chuck S · November 7th, 2006, 08:41 AM

Yes link works fine which means you might want to post a test user account here

cellarius · November 7th, 2006, 08:57 AM

Of course:
user: pptest, pw: pptest (this is a normal user)

should you need admin or ftp access, please send a pm.

In the meantime I did another clean installation from scratch - just the same result.

Chuck S · November 7th, 2006, 12:03 PM

I use the login provided and I am logged in fine. You need to as admin set permissions in edit usergroups so I can upload etc but I dont get forwarded anywhere when viewing the gallery

As far as missing images all browsers I use are new current technology which do not show missing images so I will never see that. You can though make sure you edit your header or navbar templates in vb if your using some custom style and make sure all image links are full url not relative urls.

cellarius · November 7th, 2006, 12:38 PM

Thanks for your help, Chuck, but uploading etc. is not an issue. I know about the user permissions - tried that with my first install. Then I noticed the missing images and thought to clear that first. Anyway: Permissions set.

Concerning the error: It seems that the error only occurs when logging in using the "remember me" function. Might that in any way make it cookie-related? When I'm logging in without it, I can use the link above; when I'm logging in with it - error. I can reproduce this in any browser I have at the ready (Firefox 2.0, IE 6, IE 7, Opera).

Concerning the missing images: I would have switched to full urls, but I don't know how to do this for those two links. The little arrows are not shown using img-tags (which would make editing easy in the vB-template), but they seem to be a background-image in css. This might also be the cause for these images not showing while other images from vB (using img-tags) do. Any hint on this? I wouldn't mind if the arrows were only missing - but you see, at the moment 80something percent of users use IE 6 - and this browser shows the well-known boxes. This issue therefore needs to be fixed somehow.

As does, even more urgent, the error: First it shows that something is amiss, and I'm not building upon a script not really working on my server; and, of course, I don't want anyone following links to my gallery and seeing nasty errors when the links are really perfectly o.k. I see that the missing images may somehow be connected to my costomizations, but the error also shows when I switch to standard templates.

Thanks for further help (and all the help already given)
Sven

P.S.: As already offered: Would admin-rights for pp/vB be helpful? I'd provide it via PM.

cellarius · November 7th, 2006, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by cellarius

Concerning the missing images: I would have switched to full urls, but I don't know how to do this for those two links. The little arrows are not shown using img-tags (which would make editing easy in the vB-template), but they seem to be a background-image in css. This might also be the cause for these images not showing while other images from vB (using img-tags) do. Any hint on this? I wouldn't mind if the arrows were only missing - but you see, at the moment 80something percent of users use IE 6 - and this browser shows the well-known boxes. This issue therefore needs to be fixed somehow.

This one's fixed. Of course, one can set the global paths in the style setting. Only thought of it after looking at the javascript code that makes the dropdowns... Stupid me

Sven

Chuck S · November 7th, 2006, 04:01 PM

Yep you can not have relative paths

We auto rewrite normal vb relative links etc but not custom stuff

cellarius · November 7th, 2006, 05:53 PM

But no idea on my other problem?

cellarius · November 8th, 2006, 08:42 AM

Hey Chuck, still with me?

Chuck S · November 8th, 2006, 10:12 AM

what other issue? Your talking about paths for your vb images and I responded

cellarius · November 8th, 2006, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by cellarius

When I follow the link I provided in the previous post, I get the following error:
* see above *

Quote:

Originally Posted by cellarius

I just figured out that the error appears only when I'm logged in to the Forum. If I log out and try the link, the page loads correctly.

Quote:

Originally Posted by cellarius

Concerning the error: It seems that the error only occurs when logging in using the "remember me" function. Might that in any way make it cookie-related? When I'm logging in without it, I can use the link above; when I'm logging in with it - error. I can reproduce this in any browser I have at the ready (Firefox 2.0, IE 6, IE 7, Opera) ... the error also shows when I switch to standard templates.

This error. Still there and happens reproducably when coming from another domain than http://www.roma-antiqua.de. Or shall I open a new thread for this

Sven

Chuck S · November 8th, 2006, 03:03 PM

I think I stated right after your initial post I clicked your link and get no such issue so its hard to say. In fact your running vbulletin 3.62 so we never load functions_showthread.php