Howdy all,
I've posted a few times to try to help others, but this is the first time I've been looking for some help. Guess what, I trust most of you enough to ask!!!

Anyway, I've been playing with IIS 5.1 (Win XP SP2 fully patched) for a while, no problems. I recently went in and customized some error messages, going VERY BASIC, stripping out asp code out of what was there, and spiffing up the text.

Normal site: graphics show properly.

Custom Error pages: Text shows, Graphic Placeholder shows, but no image.

So basically, I have the main part of the original error text, with my own comments and an apt graphic.

Tests: (in both IE and Firefox) (you can get the 404 with http://thaylok.is-a-geek.net/image.html or directory denial with http://thaylok.is-a-geek.net/KRC-Files/ )
Loopback address:
Using Loopback, I get the text and graphics with no problem
DYNDNS address:
I get the text, but no graphic
MMC Console:
Everything shows fine when browsing or opening (it pulls up the direct path and loopback)

The directory listing error should show a large green dragon, and the page not found should show a map-type image.

I have looked through the M$ knowledgebase to no avail. I did note that I had everything set up properly from what instructions they have on their site. However, their instructions and troubleshooting did not reference why graphics would not be served in the error pages. Most of their documentation has to do with adding dynamic functionality to the custom error pages.

Currently, I want static pages which I can modify later.

Has anyone ran across similar problems in the past?

As a side, I may request other help as I go through and work on some blog software I'm up to (after the error pages display properly).

Hmm... very odd indeed [I bet with Apache you wouldn't have this trouble! ]

If you don't mind - could you either post, or PM me the source to one of the pages you're having trouble? I might be able to see something in there. I can't say I'm too familiar with ISS though, since I prefer Apache...

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I agree (apache), I'll get the info posted as soon as I get home, thanks in advance.

I do have apache running on my linux side and haven't had many problems that haven't been solved by the community., but I'm working on the M$ side so I can buff my resume some more.

I'm going to sleep now, but when I get up tomorrow, I'll pop in and have a look for you

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I believe I have a workaround. I had to move all of the custom error messages (and all the graphics) out of the directory they were in, and place them in the root directory for the web site. Then I redirected the custom error features (AGAIN) to the new file location.

I also found some inconsistencies with the files... In that: in some of the custom error pages, I had to reference the image source with a / but in others I had to leave off the / Why? I don't know, but I got it to start showing the images.

In one file (for the 404 page not found) I had to replace the junk script so that it shows my error page in IE. IE used its browser's default error page when the script was removed. It worked fine in Firefox.

I did not like this for several reasons, least of which it put more files in that web site root directory, and I'm a neat freak and minimalist when possible.

Thanks again for the help!!! I really do appreciate it, and look forward to helping othes some more!

One reason why IE is showing the default error page but not FF could be that it does not recognize custom error pages under 512 bytes [that doesn't include any graphics. Try adding some dummy text in the HTML comments to make sure it's over 512 bytes.

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Thanks Ash, that helped a lot, I filled in all the junk, and that solved the problems. Sorry I did not reply sooner, I was working on other aspects of the site.