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none of my images are showing up, even though the path is correct... the images show as broken

Do you using a real server (made out of hardware) or a virtual one like vserver?

Greetings
Oswald

it is a virtual private server.

is there any known problem with that? how to solve? thanks!

Yes. You can find the German thread here: http://community.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?t=824

To summarize the thread you've to set

enablesendfile off

in your httpd.conf.

But I don't know exactly if it's working in your context.

Greetings
Oswald

erm, i cannot read German...

but anyway, it's working now! what's the rationale???

Great!

Anonymous wrote:erm, i cannot read German...

Sorry, yes of course. I only wanted to point out it's not something I "know". I just read it there.

but anyway, it's working now! what's the rationale???

I'm not sure but I assume the sendfile support in virtual servers is broken. Sendfile let the kernel directly transmit a file without the help of a user process. In case of a virtual server this could be problematic to implement. Just a guess.

Greetings
Oswald