Re: Storage of Images (use in web pages)

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Dutch.

I've not heard of people storing actual images in a database, but maybe
paths to them.

For most images we store them in the IFS.  For a web page they need to have
the proper authorities to the directory (*RX) and file (*R) as well as your
web server instance set up to serve from the location.  Here's an example
Apache Web config file:

http://fieldexit.com/forum/display?threadid=15

Another option is offloading the images to cloud sites so that the requests
for images (and possibly other things like JavaScript) are spread out among
many servers, removing the bottleneck of everything on one server.

For this you just have to make sure to specify the full URL path to the
file in your HTML (ie, src="http://mycloud.com/images/logo.png"; vs
"/images/logo.png" when they are stored locally)

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 10:21 AM, RPG List <rpglist@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am working on a sideline project for myself personally, educational
> edification if you will, and I'd like some feed back from anyone willing
> to contribute on how you store your html images for use on the iSeries.
>
> IE: are you storing them in the IFS only, are you storing them in a sql
> table? If you don't mind, I'd like to know why your storing them as you do
> as well, what the reasons were for the choice you made.
>
> I know some websites in general store them (especially those which are php
> table driven) in a database like MySQL or MS SQL server, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all comments.
>
> Dutch
>
>
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