[Mortal_Takeda]

Hi there! I have a little problem with my webserver. I am using Apache 2.2.4 on Windows XP Home Edition. On my webserver I have a folder that contains some images. But when I try to load an image in my web browser, the images are only loaded partly. It will completely load small images. But the bigger ones won't load entirely.

For example, when I go to http://localhost/images/whatever.jpg
I only get to see the first part of the image. Hitting the refresh button doesn't work either. I also tried different browsers. And loading the images inside of a webpage gives the same result. And there's nothing wrong with the image files.

I've had this problem before with a previous version of Apache. I can't remember how I was able to fix it then. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I appreciate your help.

[Mortal_Takeda]

Ok, I just extended my memory from 512MB to 1GB, hoping that it'll solve the problem. But it doesn't have any effect. Is there anyone who has the same problem?

[Christian]

Have you tried clearing your cache or doing a hard refresh (CRTL + F5)? To me, this sounds more like a browser problem rather than a webserver issue.

[Mortal_Takeda]

I don't think it's a browser issue, because I've already tried three different browsers: Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer (latest versions). I also tried the hard refresh, but no effect. Also this happens with any picture I try to load on my webserver. But it doesn't happen when I try to load pictures from other websites. So it must have something to do with my webserver.

Got more ideas?

[mab]

Can you confirm that you are browsing to the image file itself and it is not on a .html web page? My first thought is some height tag or some overlapping content is causing this. But if you are browsing directly to the url of the image file, this would indicate no tags or other content is involved.

Are you sure the image file is all present and is not corrupt? You can open them in an image editor program and they display correctly? If you right click on the partial image and select the properties menu item, does it list the correct dimension information for what the image should be or does it list the smaller height?

Check your web server log files (both the Access and Error log) for any information.

[Mortal_Takeda]

Thanks for your reply..

Can you confirm that you are browsing to the image file itself and it is not on a .html web page?

It doesn't matter whether I browse to the image files directly, or indirectly via a webpage. Nothing is overlapping the images. Please check the screenshot.

Are you sure the image file is all present and is not corrupt?

I double checked all the image files, but there is nothing wrong with the image files. I have no problem opening them in an image editor either.

If you right click on the partial image and select the properties menu item, does it list the correct dimension information for what the image should be or does it list the smaller height?

All the browsers list the correct image information in the properties dialog. The dimension is correct and even the image size in bytes is exactly the same.

Check your web server log files (both the Access and Error log) for any information.

I checked both the access.log and the error.log files, but nothing unusual. The error.log lists nothing. And the access.log just gives the accessed image files. Nothing unusual at all.

[bizzar528]

What's the file size of the image?

Have you tried uploading it to an actually webhost instead of using your local system? You might have a settings issue in apache or iis that's preventing it from displaying properly.

Apache or iis?

[Mortal_Takeda]

These size of the file is 156 KB and I'm using the Apache webserver.

Just when I was trying to figure out from which filesize the files wouldn't load, it suddenly started working again! I didn't change anything on the webserver.. so I can't explain why.

But this has happened before, and then the exact same thing happened. I installed and configured Apache, the images wouldn't load.. and then it suddenly started working. And now it's happening again.

So if anybody could explain to me why this is happening, I'd really like to hear it. Something tells me this will happen again in the future..

[bizzar528]

I was reading bits and pieces and some of this sounds like an apache bug. The posts I read were more targetted towards Apache and Macs, but the unlying problem has something to do with Apache detecting polling for the sending of data and having it incorrectly report a finished download. The other posts I read suggested reverting to older version of apache, or going through and manually patching/building. On xp though, this would be a pain. I'd suggest sticking with the 2.0 apache rather than try to jump to 2.2. I know that the latest/greatest is not always the most stable with some of the open source software. (see also Tomcat).

I'll have to track down and see if I can find the bug there were referencing and see if it matches this version of apache too.

[Mortal_Takeda]

bizzar528, thanks for your concern. But the first time this actually happened was a long time ago. I think I was using an Apache 2.0 version back then, but I'm not sure though. With the first occurence I found a thread on another forum which discussed the same thing. So I think it's a known issue, but I can't seem to find anything with google..