Password problems

[acecombat]

Hi.
I have a site set up, at \\ level is a fairly plain page that when you click on the link is navigated to \\secure\ which is set up with password access with abyss x1. I also set up custom error pages for 400, 401, 403 and 404 and they are saved in \\. When you click the sign in link and either enter wrong 3 times or hit cancel, it goes to the correct error page and the text is displayed but it asks for the password again, and unless you enter it the image wont display on the page (image is also stored in \\)
Any ideas on why this has happened?!?

[MonkeyNation]

Not quite sure how this is set up, but at a rough guess, i'd say that the image thats on your 403 page is in the protected folder.
If you made an error page in say /error_me.html and it used image the_finger.jpg coded as <IMG src='the_finger.jpg'> then because the error page effectivley becomes whatever page the error is at, then an error called on /obviously/doesn't/exist wouldn't find the image in /obviously/doesn't/exist, however /obviously/doesn't/exist is protected so it gives a password prompt first. You'd have to put <IMG src='/the_finger.jpg'>.
If you haven't done the last one, don't mind me, I just thought that might be the case cause you're using the wrong slashes.
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[aprelium]

[acecombat]

So this is my dirs:
/
/protected
The main index.html file is in / which links to an index file in /protected
The error pages AND the images are both in /
So you have:
/index.html
/400.html
/400.gif
/401.html
/401.gif
/403.html
/403.gif
/404.html
/404.gif
/protected/index.html
And the only directory that is set as protected is, /protected and the main /index.html file loads fine!

[MonkeyNation]

[acecombat]

The webdrive root, along with the index.html file that works, hence the /403.html
What puzzles me though is that its loading the 403.html file but wont load the .gif which is in exactly the same, non-passworded dir

[MonkeyNation]

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[acecombat]

Its really weird. This is the line from the log

[roganty]

ok, lets explain whats going on here.

lets assume that the error pages are in folder /error

when you view the error page normally, for example browse to the page location, /error/404.html
it looks for the image in the /error directory, and finds it.

when the page is viewed as a 'proper' error page then the page location becomes /path/to/error/404.html
now the image is looked for in the /path/to/error directory

so that means that you need to reference the image with absolute paths.

for example
<img src="404.gif" /> is a relative path and is wrong.
<img src="/error/404.gif" /> is an absolute path and would find the image in the correct directory
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Anthony R

Roganty | Links-Links.co.uk

[aprelium]

As explained roganty, any file referenced in your error pages (image, .JS, or .CSS) must be linked using its absolute virtual path since you don't know at which directory the error can occur and you cannot rely on the browser resolving the relative virtual paths in such a context.
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[acecombat]

Sorry, I think I'm not making sence here. They WERE in the errors directory but now they are in root dir as I thought it might have been a problem accessing the different directorys after asking for a password. The absolute path to the file is \404.gif as both the html file and gif are in the root directory but it still refuses to load.

[acecombat]

OK, I checked my logs and it appears that after a failed password attempt at logging into /secure/index.htm it loads the /401.htm file ok but tries and loads the pic from /secure/401.gif. I opened the 401.htm in notepad and frontpage had the picture location as "401.gif" so i just popped a / infront of it and it works ok!!! Is this a bug in Abyss 'cause most other web pages I've seen before just reference the file as "name.gif" rather than "/name.gif"?

[MonkeyNation]

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