Re: Static Images
Re: Static Images
- Subject: Re: Static Images
- From: Robert Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:31:03 -0400
Okay, there has been a relatively drawn out discussion on static
image, but I didn't see anyone really providing the dirt on this issue,
so here it is:
Think about why you cannot use relative paths in WebObjects......
Answer: WebObjects has built-in support for load balancing your
application across multiple applications servers. The instances you
create may not reside on the web server, and for a high traffic web
sites, they really shouldn't reside on the web server. So, how can you
have a relative path when the web server is a different box than your
application server? Answer: You really can't (at least without
mapping a drive from your application servers to your web server, which
is a really BAD idea!)?
So the answer to how you to use static images in your WebObjects
application (as several people have mentioned) is to provide an
absolute path to your images on the web server (i.e. change
images/myimage.gif to http://www.mydomain.com/images/myimage.gif).
Basically just open your static web page, perform a global search and
replace to make the paths absolute. Simple!
Now your WebObjects application uses static images, but does not break
load balancing.
On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 11:51 PM,
email@hidden wrote:
Could someone please tell me how to add static images to my page?
I think the consensus is that a Web server is more efficient at
vending static images than WO, so you might consider just adding a
static image tag to your page. WOBuilder supports configuring this.
One way (I think) is to add a WOImage and make it static in the
Inspector. Then you can enter the path to the image and be done with
it.
Aloha,
Art
--
Sincerely,
Robert Walker
http://www.robertwalker1.com
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