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Asked: 2026-06-04T11:21:00+00:00

Problem I uploaded an image using the inbuilt tool and added it to a

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Problem

I uploaded an image using the inbuilt tool and added it to a blog post. All this on the production server, across the pond in Montana, US.

It displays fine (using the correct absolute path it should: “/Media/Default/BlogPost/…”) in the preview of the blog post. But once I publish it, I get a broken image in the live site. The reason being that the path renders as:

http://localhost:%5Bport number]/Media/Default/BlogPost/…

Obviously, if running on a Dev machine, this will still work, but once on the live web server, this no longer works.

History

I downloaded WebMatrix onto my machine, downloaded orchard, installed the Minty theme, made a new theme that uses Minty as the BaseTheme. Then, once everything was almost there, uploaded onto the live web server.

I can’t see how this can affect how the server interprets an absolute path, but maybe I am missing something?

Fudged solution

I can fudge a solution by using the URL of the site i.e. I open the image picker and in the URL for the image resource text box I put:

http://blogs.mysite.co.uk/Media/Default/BlogPost/…

With this full URL, the problem goes away, but it is a fudge and I shouldn’t need to do this.

Any suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    @gelistir from the Orchard discussion pages answered this.

    It is caused by a module, the Vanderlay Relative URL Filter module. Disabling the module (that I wasn’t using anyway, not even sure what it does…) solved the issue.

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