I am hoping you kind folks can help me with a test. . I had a visitor mention that my gallery and index page is simply displaying red ‘x’s when visiting (Using Windows IE6, and was also tested using Firefox). . However, when I have tested it from another PC, from home on my Mac, even from my phone, it seems to display OK. . I have a feeling it is a local PC issue, but don’t know what to suggest to fix it I don’t have access to the PC to fiddle with it of course I also don’t know how widespread this may be or affecting other visitors. . It looks like this;
If you could please do a quick visit to my gallery and leave a comment here to let me know if it is displaying correctly, and also let me know the browser and operating system you use, that would be very helpful. The odd thing is the pages and pictures of this blog appear to be fine for them as well as other websites. It is only the gallery and main splash page that seem to be the issue.
Gallery:. http://www.grafphoto.com/gallery
Thanks a lot!!
Craig, that was not the issue, since many users were still able to have the page displayed properly. Also not likely on the server timeout. I am fairly confident it was a case of a blank referrer getting blocked by the generic Cpanel hotlink protection I had turned on. I have turned the cpanel version off, and placed a custom .htaccess file per the site I linked above that allows the blank referrers.
Hi Mark,
This is usually caused when the images cannot be located by the script in question. As it all seems to be working fine now, it could have just been a network issue of a server timeout which can be rectified with a simple page refresh (in most cases).
Craig
Should anyone have this issue on their own site, here is the link that gave me the solution to this issue; see the section under blank referrers – I believe that is what was happening;
http://www.htaccesstools.com/hotlink-protection/
Thank you for all the feedback. I have a feeling it will work now for those having problems. It had to do with a prevention of hotlinking I had turned on for my site. These prevents people from stealing bandwidth by linking straight to the images on my server. With that turned off, it seemed to fix the problem.
The strange thing is, i don’t know why when hotlinking was prevented, that the gallery still worked fine for most visitors. I will have to research that a bit more.
All’s well here; XP Home 2002 SP3 with IE 7.0.5730.11
Works fine for me here Mark. I’m testing on my work computer, running a version of XP and Firefox, although I’m not sure which versions.
Hi Mark
Your images are once more displayed. Many thanks for flicking the switch.
Malcolm
I’m using IE v6 and Windows XP – no problems at all, just a lot of beautiful images to enjoy. Thumbnails and full size versions, everything displayed well.
OK, a bit more research turned up it could possibly be due to hotlink protection being turned on – sometimes it affects some users, and not others.
Malcom, would you be willing to give it a try again?
Carl – very funny! 🙂 Why didn’t I think of that?
Your gallery displays fine for me. Windows explorer and Windows XP
Hi, from here the gallery looks great in FF3 under Kubuntu Linux – no red x, just thumbnails.
However the layout of the blog is distorted, the sidebar comes first and only after scrolling down I can read the content
Hi Mark
windows 98 internet explorer gives a red x, wordpress look fine. Your website and dave blacks are the only two that doesn’t display any images on my computer. Hope you can fix the problem.
Malcolm
Hey Mark,
If you’d like people to visit your gallery, just say ‘hey folks, check out my gallery’. 🙂 🙂
Which, of course, I did .. Your stuff is amazing man .. great photos.
Everything worked fine here, on Safari.
Cheers
Carl
Looks great on my Internet Explorer 7 Browser with Vista Mark.
No problems here: Windows XP SP3, IE7 and Firefox 3/3.1b.
Hi Mark,
Looked fine for me as well. I’m using XP, and tried it with IE and Firefox.
Ron
Looks good from here.
XP Pro sp3, firefox 3.0.3.
Look the photo’s and your comments. Thanks for sharing this
I looked up something on the net that stated it could be a character encoding setting?
An aggressive ad blocking policy, perhaps?
(xp pro sp3, firefox 3.0.3, everything ok)
Works fine, iE 7.0.5730.11 on a “thin client” in Citrix.
Images display just fine on my PC running Firefox.
Worked fine for me, on a PC running Firefox
Another PC here that shows no red X’s. I’m running Windows XP and IE 7. This was a great motivator to spend a few minutes amiring your gallery.
Hi, Mark –
Everything shows OK here, XP SP3 with Firefox 3.0.3 & Internet Explorer 7…
– Jack
The gallery looks fine on my work PC which runs Windows XP with SP3 and Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.5512 (with XP SP3).
Hi Mark,
Your gallery looks fine, no red-x as all images display ok.
I’m using Win XP SP3 and Firefox 3.0.3
Regards ……… Aubrey