The problem is that you are populating your IMG tags with this path:

/htdocs/pics/{random image file}

However, your pics are here:

http://{your site IP}/pics/{random image file}

Without knowing your filesystem, it's hard to say exactly where, but somewhere you are introducing "/htdocs/" to the path. My guess is the "./" part of the path, but you've said changing that has no effect.

Off the top of my head: could this be a config issue with your server? Perhaps you are pointing at the directory above your docroot (ie htdocs) instead of the htdocs directory?

AH

Update: I copy/pasted your code and ran it on my machine. When I removed the "." before the "./pics" it worked. If you do that and you are still getting "/htdocs/pics" I'd say it's almost certainly a config issue.

Do you mean the code that I originally posted or the code that you gave me? Cause I got the code that I wrote working. It turns out it was a problem with my server configuration, just a little typographical error that threw it off.

Yeah i did figure out what the problem was, I had a stupid gramatical error in the config file of the server. Although the code i have may not be the greatest, according to some, it did work correctly once i fixed that config error. Thanks for your help.

I don't understand how I'm generating all this horrible html code

when the only problem I seem to have is that the picture is not displayed

I see. So you're saying that the way I have the program now it is not recognizing the image files as images but rather as cgi scripts, and to remedy that I have to do it the way that you did which is actually read the images in and place them into an array? Also, if I say that I don't understand how I'm doing something, that means I don't and its not obvious to me, no matter how obvious it is to you or anyone else.

No! I am saying just the opposite!
Your images ARE recognizing as cgi-scripts right now, they should obviously be seen as images!
And, then secondly, I dont even check if you images exists, let alone read them in. I really cant see where that idea came from?
Move your pics library from the cgi-bin dir to the .../htdocs, give it permission for everyone to read chmod 755 pics; chmod -R 644 pics; and then it should work.
Then go read a introduction to HTML and HTTP, and try to understand why it went wrong.

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