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I've added an image to a block that shows on every page and have the image added manually in the block like so:

<img src="sites/default/files/image-name" />

It shows fine on the home page as intended, but on the interior pages it doesn't show. I inspected element and for most pages it's using the same URL to try and access it.

I cleared cache.

Thoughts on why this might be?

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  • That's how HTML work. You hardcoded it as a relative link, so if it appears on example.com/somearticle, browsers are obligated to look for image at example.com/somearticle/sites/default/files/image-name - and this path does not exist.
    – Mołot
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 7:18
  • @Molot right...but, I thought in Drupal this always worked. Well, I guess I just have to make it absolute then. Thanks for the follow-up.
    – Sage
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 7:25
  • Drupal is just a glorified HTML generator. At the end of the day, html will work like html always does. image_style_url is a Drupal way around this particular problem
    – Mołot
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 8:29

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<img src="sites/default/files/image-name" />

right now its appending after the url of whatever page you are on.

yourwebsite.com/hello/sites/default/files/image-name
yourwebsite.com/article/sites/default/files/image-name
yourwebsite.com/contact-us/sites/default/files/image-name

instead of appending after your domain name.

yourwebsite.com/sites/default/files/image-name

so you just need to add a / at the beginning, so it appends after your domain name only.

so your code needs to be:

<img src="/sites/default/files/image-name" />
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  • yes, that's what I was looking for!
    – Sage
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 21:19
  • ok, so I thought that's what was needed and I'm pretty sure that's what I've done before. But when I put my links in like this the image placeholder shows up and not the image on every page. Any idea why that might be?
    – Sage
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 23:14
  • Nevermind i fixed it. it's because the whole site is in a sub-directory and i need to reference that ALSO, like so: /sub-dir/sites/etc.
    – Sage
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 23:15
  • you shouldn't need to ref your sub directory. Did you setup your 000-default.conf correctly? see my answ in Error Finding Home page for Drupal 7 Site on Ubuntu Linux I put my site inside a folder called Drupal.
    – No Sssweat
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 23:28
  • thanks for the follow-up. I setup my site in /var/www/sitename which is why I guess I have to reference it in my links now. But I think I see what you mean. I could just put that whole path in my 000-default.conf and add additional sites also. I'll just try that. Thanks for clarifying!
    – Sage
    Commented Oct 29, 2015 at 6:23
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Please check if the block has permission to display content with internal pages also like block display might have been set as the only.

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  • thank you, it does. I just went ahead and made the links absolute and that fixed the problem.
    – Sage
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 18:30
  • absolute links are sometime so much pain in the ass especially when you move your site to different server. All your links need to be updated so I suggest use relative links
    – Shabir A.
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 21:21
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If all you want to have image in block you can use image block module. Its pretty easy to use.

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  • thank you that's also a good idea I had not considered. What I was looking for specifically is above.
    – Sage
    Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 21:20

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