Topic: wxgraphic output a gif?

[mackbig]

I am happy with my wxgraphic since I created it.  No issues on this forum.  However over on the boltek forum, the IMG tags dont work with it.  I noticed those showing a graphic have theirs as GIF's or JPG's, rather than the php script

It is possible to still use this

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http://www.mackweather.com/wxgraphic/wxgraphic.phpBut have it also create a GIF (maybe via cron, or other) that resides in image ready format on site?

I did find some reference to something like this in the forum, but it was circa 2006, so not sure what's changed since then...

Thanks
Andrew

[SLOweather]

In the .htaccess file on your server, put in a line like this

Redirect sig.gif http://httP://www.sloweather.com/sticker/sticker.php?type=banner_big

You can probably make your own .htaccess file with just that entry in it and put it in the root of your web directory.

(assumes a Apache/linux server...)

That tells the server to redirect any incoming request for sig.gif to the URL after it. The calling web page won't know it's really running a script, since it just gets an image back like it asked for.

[mackbig]

Thanks Chris, I will give it a try tonight.
Andrew

[mackbig]

tried it from work using godaddy file manager

made a file called  .htaccess
uploaded to \wxgraphic folder

had this code

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redirect 301 http://www.mackweather.com/wxgraphic/sig.gif http://www.mackweather.com/wxgraphic/wxgraphic.php
tried it without 301, with just sig.gif then a bunch of path specific...?

To test tried to call
http://www.mackweather.com/wxgraphic/sig.gif

Will try at home once I have ftp, but aside from speed, it should have worked...

Andrew

[Axelvold]

I just get a page not found warning

[sam2004gp]

same here

[mackbig]

warning?  I get a "Page not found".

Changed .htaccess to this

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redirect 301 sig.gif http://www.mackweather.com/wxgraphic/wxgraphic.php
and put in root folder, still get "page not found" for
http://www.mackweather.com/sig.gif

Andrew

I just get a page not found warning

[Axelvold]

Now it works

[mackbig]

strange, must be some latency between creating an htaccess file and it actually working.  Lars, thanks for letting me know

Andrew