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#21

Anyone know how to link to a photo that is hosted elsewhere? There are times when I’d like to post something directly to the forum. I’ve uploaded some pics to my web host, but can’t figure out how to access them for posting in a forum. I assume I need an url of some sort, but I don’t know what it would be. I tried using the url of my website and adding on the name of the folder followed by the name of the file, like so: ****//

But that doesn’t work. (“http:” replaced with asterisks to allow the line to show up)

#22

Ray,

You right-click on the picture on your site and select “copy image address”, then paste that into whatever post you want to show that image.

What you linked in your post shows up with an HTM ending (when you right-click and select “image properties”), which refers to a webpage, not an image. An image would have a JPG, PNG, GIF etc. etc. file designation.

#23

Your site is a bit funny Ray. Right clicking will just give you the properties of the link to the picture. You can get the image location by going to the picture and hitting “Download”. That gives me the pic with Firefox. You can then right click on the image and hit “Copy image location” and paste it here (minus the “?disposition=download” at the end). Most other forums will require adding image tags — -Brian

#24

Thanks, that helps some. But what about pictures that aren’t actually visible in one of my web albums?

I’m not sure if I’m using the right terminology here, but what I’m looking for is a way to host a photo on my site, but have it only be visible within a post on the forum.

#25

No reason you can’t do that Ray, you just need to figure out the exact URL for that image. Sounds like your web host might make that a little difficult. How do you get images up to the host? If you’re using FTP that tool should help you figure out the URL. My host, where your logo lives has a domain name of lsc.cvsry.com - Under the root directory of that domain I created a directory named ray and uploaded your SmallHerald1.jpg logo there. The resulting url becomes [code]

[/code] If your website has similar structure, you’ll just need to determine the exact folder and image names.

#26

Jon is right. How do you get the JPG to your website host? Do you have separate directory for the pictures that are not shown on your website? I have a separate dir for the pictures shown on the fora, that way I don’t need to think about where I stored it. :wink: :slight_smile: :wink:

#27

I use Fetch to upload stuff to my website host. Until now I’ve only uploaded my website. Then I uploaded a folder with a few pics in it, to see if I can get them to post on the forum or elsewhere. I just tried using Fetch to get the address of one of those photos, and this is what I got:

#28

Ray, the proper address for that jpg is ttp://

just add the “h” in http - I left it out to show what the address is! - and you’ll get

that means first your domain url, then the IRRwebfiles dir and then the actual JPEG file name.

#29

Ah, I see! Thanks!

BTW, that pic is the “motor” I made for my crane model, prior to painting.

#30

AHA !!!

My FTP Client shows a similar weird path to my pictures. Has something to do with the way the file transfer client logs on to a sever that is shared by many domains. The domain name points to a sub-directory on the server and everything above that is locked out.

So, you should be well on your way now! Just remember to substitute your domain name for htdocs and everything in front of that in the URL that Fetch supplies and no mater what folder you upload to you should be able to link to the image.