catalyst/apache problem with non root request not able to serve images

confused_elf has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

I'm currently stuck with this problem, I currently using apache2/modperl2 with catalyst and TT.

the problem is that when i run the server,

say http:://my-pc/index.html works fine, it loads up and serves the images

This is the output from my /var/log/apache2/error.log

[info] *** Request 3 (0.001/s) [12648] [Tue Sep 18 15:28:33 2007] ***

[debug] "GET" request for "/" from "127.0.1.1"

[debug] Rendering template "index.tt"

[info] Request took 0.092404s (10.822/s)

.----------------------------------------------------------------+----
+-------.

| Action                                           | Time      |

+----------------------------------------------------------------+----
+-------+

| /index                                                         | 0.0
+34688s |

| /end                                                           | 0.0
+49980s |

|  -> MyApp::View::TT->process                           | 0.046271s |

'----------------------------------------------------------------+----
+-------'

but anytime I have a non root request, for example, 
http://my-pc/category/index.html,
it only serves the text part and not the images,

[info] *** Request 1 (0.000/s) [12649] [Tue Sep 18 15:30:58 2007] ***

[debug] "GET" request for "category/index.html" from "127.0.1.1"

[debug] Path is "category/index.html"

[debug] Rendering template "category/index.tt"

[debug] Rendering template "category/index.tt"

[info] Request took 0.119325s (8.380/s)

.----------------------------------------------------------------+----
+-------.

| Action                                                         | Tim
+e      |

+----------------------------------------------------------------+----
+-------+

| /category/index                                                 | 0.
+081885s |

|  -> MyApp::View::TT->process                           | 0.056685s |

| /category/end                                                   | 0.
+024370s |

|  -> MyApp::View::TT->process                           | 0.023263s |

'----------------------------------------------------------------+----
+-------'



[info] *** Request 1 (0.000/s) [12654] [Tue Sep 18 15:30:58 2007] ***

[debug] "GET" request for "category/static/images/lnav_search_btn.gif"
+ from "127.0.1.1"

[debug] Arguments are "category/static/images/lnav_search_btn.gif"

[debug] Rendering template "category/default"

[error] Couldn't render template "file error - category/default: not f
+ound"

[error] Couldn't render template "file error - category/default: not f
+ound"

[info] Request took 0.052850s (18.921/s)

.----------------------------------------------------------------+----
+-------.

| Action                                                         | Tim
+e      |

+----------------------------------------------------------------+----
+-------+

| /category/default                                               | 0.
+000608s |

| /category/end                                                   | 0.
+006530s |

|  -> MyApp::View::TT->process                           | 0.004926s |

'----------------------------------------------------------------+----
+-------'



[info] *** Request 8 (0.003/s) [12646] [Tue Sep 18 15:30:58 2007] ***

[debug] "GET" request for "category/static/images/h_keyword.gif" from 
+"127.0.1.1"

[debug] Arguments are "category/static/images/h_keyword.gif"

[debug] Rendering template "category/default"

[error] Couldn't render template "file error - category/default: not f
+ound"

[error] Couldn't render template "file error - category/default: not f
+ound"

[info] Request took 0.023435s (42.671/s)

.----------------------------------------------------------------+----
+-------.

| Action                                                         | Tim
+e      |

+----------------------------------------------------------------+----
+-------+

| /category/default                                               | 0.
+000391s |

| /category/end                                                   | 0.
+004704s |

|  -> MyApp::View::TT->process                           | 0.003614s |

'----------------------------------------------------------------+----
+-------'
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both of the pages on http://my-pc/index.html and http://my-pc/category/index.html is exactly the same. but somehow, the non-root request for the image always goes to the default path.

does anyone has any experience on this?, I've been trying to find out what the problem is for 2 days now.

Thanks in advance for the help guys.

Please let me know if you guys need more information

Thanks,

confused elf

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Re: catalyst/apache problem with non root request not able to serve images by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 18, 2007 at 09:12 UTC
The problem is probably that you use relative URLs in the HTML, so in /index.html an image `static/foo.gif` is mapped to `/static/foo.gif`, but in `/category/index.html` it is mapped to `/category/static/index.html` which doesn't exist. You can avoid that by using absolute image pathes, like `/static/foo.gif`. Perl 6 in German	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: catalyst/apache problem with non root request not able to serve images by confused_elf (Novice) on Sep 18, 2007 at 15:25 UTC
you are absolutely right, I feel so stupid now. I really thought that catalyst would handle that automatically. I should've thought about that. Thanks a lot though for the quick help, I appreciate it. Thankss confused elf	[reply]