images links changing

**Lackew** · 17 Oct 2009, 09:22 PM

i had a problem with pics being unsecured and found the thread advise to use relative addresses. This worked wonderfully............ Until I had to Reset the database from Admin/Store Manager, now all the links changed from images/filename.jpg to http://domainname.com/admin/images/filename.jpg so I had to redo all the pages with links or added pics.

Is there anyway to prevent this the next time I have to reset the database??????

**DrByte** · 19 Oct 2009, 02:33 AM

I don't understand what you're saying.

Nothing in the Store Manager tool has anything to do with image links.

**Lackew** · 19 Oct 2009, 09:47 PM

I set up a few links and images on my website which I was getting an unsecure error which I corrected by using relative links instead of the full path.
From Admin/Tools/Store Manager I got a warning I needed to reset my database. After doing so all the links & pic that I added were changed from " includes/images/filename.jpg to http://your-ehome.com/admin/includes/images/filename
this was done for links and pics so they no longer worked

dont know how else to explain it

**DrByte** · 19 Oct 2009, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by Lackew

From Admin/Tools/Store Manager I got a warning I needed to reset my database.

There's nothing there that will tell you to reset your database.
There *is* something that may tell you that your Admin Activity Log is over 2 months old or over a certain number of records, and tell you to purge it.

But doing that sort of purge of the admin activity log ONLY touches the admin_activity_log table. It has NOTHING to do with anything else like product or image data.

So, whatever problem you've got must be related to something else.

**Lackew** · 19 Oct 2009, 10:06 PM

perhaps it was Optimize Database
guess I will find out which one the next time

**wlmartin** · 10 Mar 2010, 04:06 AM

I believe I had the same issue. Not only did it affect the image links I also had some links to other site pages in the conditions and privacy pages that it also affected. Don't know how I did it or what may have happened. I accidentally found out when I clicked on the properties of the images and also viewed the source of the page did I see references to my renamed admin folder - freaked me out.

I have been trying ever since to set up relative links in both html editor and now trying FCKeditor and still can't seem to get them to recognize the links I am trying to write. It appears they want to write an absolute link.

Since I am new at this I am sure I am not writing them correctly or sending the link to look at the wrong directory.