[SOLVED]Background image not appearing

[jasnick]

Have just come back from 5 weeks holiday and find I am very rusty when it comes to CMSMS. Was getting on very well before.

Have just started switching an existing site to CMSMS using latest version.

Existing site is at http://www.u3auwa.org. New CMSMS site is at http://westwebtest.com/u3auwa.org/

#container has a background image: background: #fff url(uploads/images/bluebg3.jpg) top left repeat-y;

This is not visible. All I have done so far is to add a new template and a new CSS. Trying to get the first page layout right before adding menu etc.

Is there something I have forgotten to do?

Thanks

[M@rtijn]

Hi,

When I change the link to that background to

http://westwebtest.com/u3auwa.org/uploa ... luebg3.jpg

it does work.

This gives me the feeling that somewhere either in .htaccess or in config.php the root url is not set correctly.

In your .htaccess is a line

#Sub-dir e.g: /cmsms
RewriteBase /

If your website is in a subfolder, it should read

RewriteBase /u3auwa.org/

(just a guess)

Also take a look at these lines in config.php:

$config['root_url']
$config['root_path']
$config['previews_path']
$config['uploads_path']
$config['image_uploads_path']

[jasnick]

Thanks M@rtijn - yes, it is in a subdirectory. Should have thought of that.

This is from the config file:

$config['root_url'] = 'http://westwebtest.com/u3auwa.org';

#SSL URL. This is used for pages that are marked as secure.
$config['ssl_url'] = 'https://westwebtest.com/u3auwa.org';

#Path to document root. This should be the directory this file is in.
#e.g. /var/www/localhost
$config['root_path'] = '/home/westtest/public_html/u3auwa.org';

#Name of the admin directory
$config['admin_dir'] = 'admin';

#Where do previews get stored temporarily? It defaults to tmp/cache.
$config['previews_path'] = '/home/westtest/public_html/u3auwa.org/tmp/cache';

#Where are uploaded files put? This defaults to uploads.
$config['uploads_path'] = '/home/westtest/public_html/u3auwa.org/uploads';

#Where is the url to this uploads directory?
$config['uploads_url'] = $config['root_url'] . '/uploads';

The first two lines use /westwebtest/ then it changes to /westtest/ for some reason. Am not clear what is correct here?

I set this site up in my testing directory (westwebtest.com)while I work on it so as not to interfere with the current site. I named the directory "u3auwa.org".

Thanks

[jasnick]

I searched for all the .htaccess files associated with this site
/public_html/.htaccess - this was blank

/public_html/u3auwa.org/doc/.htaccess

/public_html/u3auwa.org/plugins/.htaccess

/public_html/u3auwa.org/uploads/.htaccess

/public_html/u3auwa.org/images/.htaccess

all the rest contained stuff like this:

# To deny PHPs
<Files ~ "\.(php|php3|php4|php5|phtml|pl|cgi|txt)$">
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Files>

/public_html/u3auwa.org/doc/.htaccess - this one contained htaccess.txt which had the #Sub-dir e.g: /cmsms
RewriteBase / you mentioned; I added /u3auwa.org/ but it made no difference.

I am still unable to see the background image.

Thanks

[jasnick]

Further to my last post, have now got the page almost OK. I had no trouble with the other images on the page but still cannot see the background image. I didn't need to make any path changes to see the other images.

One strange thing - if I use Web Developer to edit the CSS, the background image is visible!

Also, how do I get rid of the .Home that is showing under the nav?

Thanks

[M@rtijn]

Just hardcode the link in your css file to the full url:

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#container {
background: #fff url('http://westwebtest.com/u3auwa.org/uploads/images/bluebg3.jpg') top left repeat-y;
}

The only htaccess you'd have to edit is the one in your root or '/public_html'.
Copy the contents of the file in 'doc' (it's an example), to the one in your root.

Don't add '/u3auwa.org/', but use that instead of '/cms', like this:

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#Sub-dir e.g: /u3auwa.org

(no trailing slash)

[jasnick]

Thanks M@rtijn - can now see the image. I imagine when the site is finished and I transfer everything over I will get rid of the extra path details that are necessary now.

Thanks again!