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I wanted to include some uploaded assets (images) in an entry. The .url property in twig outputs the proper URL, in my case:

http://localhost/craftcms/web/image/photo-2017-04-02-16-20-53-1.jpg

However, that link is broken. Following it leads to a 404 error page:

Template not found: image/photo-2017-04-02-16-20-53-1.jpg

Viewing it in the admin panel preview also displays a broken image sign.

If I disable the Public URL switch in the asset settings, the image display fine in the admin panel, but obviously I cannot use them in public pages.

I wasn't able to find a working fix for this. I tried the multiple-environment config solution from these forums just in case, but it did not help me.

Update: here is a screenshot of my Assets volume settings: enter image description here

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  • What did you set the File System Path and the URL to? Is this a Craft 2 build?
    – Jay
    Commented Aug 24, 2018 at 14:14
  • The public URL needs to be publicly accessible, so in your web root folder. (the "web" folder by default in a craft3 project) Is your assets folder in there?
    – billythekid
    Commented Aug 24, 2018 at 14:38
  • This is a Craft 3 install. The public URL is indeed publicly accessible - inside the web folder as you suggested (see original post). The file system path - I also tried putting it in the web folder, as well as outside of it. No avail
    – Dwarf Vader
    Commented Aug 24, 2018 at 19:24
  • Can you please update your question with a screenshot of the Asset volume settings?
    – Jalen Davenport ♦
    Commented Aug 27, 2018 at 14:51

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The issue is that your Asset Volume URL is @web/image but your Asset Volume path is @webroot/assets/art

That means that Craft will look for the images on disk (to do transforms, etc.) in web/assets/art but it will generate URLs for frontend requests that point to http://example.com/image -- where presumably nothing exists.

These should probably be:

  • URL: @web/assets/art
  • Path: @webroot/assets/art

...assuming that the web/assets/art/ directory is where these images live.

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  • Thank you, this worked perfectly. Question: what if I want to have my images stored outside webroot, but have public URLs? How can I achieve that? Thank you
    – Dwarf Vader
    Commented Aug 28, 2018 at 17:23
  • It can be done, but why would you want to do that?
    – andrew.welch
    Commented Aug 28, 2018 at 19:24
  • I want to find out what the system is capable of and what its limitations are
    – Dwarf Vader
    Commented Aug 28, 2018 at 21:38
  • @andrew.welch, can you elaborate on the configuration required for storing the assets on disk outside of the web root? My use case for doing this is in a development environment where I'd like the base asset path to be an environment variable storing a path to a shared disk location where assets are maintained for all developers that are developing the site. I can serve the assets from another base path using some Nginx configurations, but I'm interested to know if it's possible without this.
    – Tim Everts
    Commented Mar 11, 2019 at 7:31

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