Hi,
I've got a little problem in a portlet: I want to display in a JSP an image but I think I'm using the wrong way... In the JSP I use this tag:

<img src="/ext/ext-web/tmp/WEB-INF/smile.jpg">

but ,in the JSP page, the result is a white small icon with a red cross in the middle...
So I wanna ask if:

-is there any default folder to store the images that i want to use in mw JSP?
-in the property 'src' of the tag image I would like to use a relative path...but I don't know if the one
I use is the right one...

Thanks for your advice!!!

Hi Fabio,

I had the same problem and resolved it by placing images in the server's directory structure as opposed to the portlet's. I'm using apache-tomcat and have it downloaded under:

In it there is a folder called "webapps" and I created a subfolder for my images there

From the portlet JSP (i.e. view.jsp) I refrence the image as such:

Hope this helps.

You can look how Liferay stores the images (a lot of them are in the theme) and use the same technology.

Hello all,

I have a very similar problem, I'm trying to display an image in a .war standalone portlet. Inside my portlet project the image path is WebContent/html/image/name.png. I tried to do it as Liferay does in other places but is not working. Nothing is shown. The only way that it works is to put the full path: <img src="http://localhost:8080/Indicator/html/image/indicator_good.png" />, but this way it will depend on the server I place the portlet. Indicator is my portlet name.

I tried these three options:

And no one of them is working. In the last one, request.getContextPath() returns an empty String. Do I need to define something first in other place to make request.getContextPath() works? Anyway I also need to look for the image from a template so, there I won't be able to use request.getContextPath().

Is there anything different when you are working in an external project for a standalone .war portlet?

Thanks in advance!

<img src="<%=renderRequest.getContextPath()%>/images/loading.gif"

worked for me.
Image was inside the war in /images/loading.gif

It works!!!

Thanks a lot!!

This works not for me

I'vo got Error: "renderRequest cannot be resolved"

I get the right context path - but still image is not visible.

Do we need to set something i web.xml or portlet.xml to make it work.

I guess its related to this my top URL, which is: http://localhost:8080/user/joebloggs/3

and context path is : my-context
so this becomes:
http://localhost:8080/my-context/images/date_icon.gif

thats why it may not be accessing the image

Hi,

I had the same problem. my fault was , that i didn't imported a taglib:

and then

worked.

I hope this helps.

I have the same problem.

Tried to use


or





Both versions generate the same code ""


When using this the error

disappears, but the images arent displayed.

Any idea?





PS.: Used the lib

problem solved!

The portlet name etc. (configuration in web.xml/portlet.xml) has to be the same as the .war achieve.

After matching these



works fine.

When i use the "request.getContextPath()" I get the correct path for my portlet when I am viewing the view.jsp page. However, as soon as i go to the Preferences and look at my custom setup.jsp the "request.getContextPath()" returns a "/".

I am importing the correct taglib and have the objects defined. Any assistance or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Liferay 5.2.3

Thanks
Andy

Steps:
1.Add images folder to docroot (docroot\images).
2. Access the image in JSP using the following.
<img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/abc.png"/>

Done!. Good Luck!