IMG SRC="???" I've read old threads...

Question

Hello,
I've spent 2 days pulling my hair out trying to get a servlet to present an image in html the same old boring easy way you would do it in a web page. I have searched this forum and read many threads, trying what each of them suggested, and uniformly failing to get anything going. In a last ditch effort, I am going to bug you folks with what is obviously an old problem. I certainly appreciate any help. By the way, I am a complete newbie to web programming, just in case that wasn't obvious ;)
Directory Structure
_________ROOT___________
| | |
WEB-INF PotteryPics index.html
| |
| _________
| | |
| Pottery Utility
|
| | |
classes lib web.xml
| |
| catalina-root.jar
|
org
|
apache
|
jsp
In total desperation I tried the following code just to see if it would work on the server machine. It did indeed produce a perfect looking page, but, of course, it failed when accessed from the web:
"<IMG SRC=\"C:/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.24/webapps/ROOT/PotteryPics/Pottery/Picture.jpg\">"
This also worked:
"<IMG SRC=\"C:\\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.24\\webapps\\ROOT\\PotteryPics\\Pottery\\ Picture.jpg\">"
This, however, and MANY other attempts similar to it uniformly fail:
"<IMG SRC=\"../PotteryPics/Pottery/Picture.jpg\">"
I'll refrain from saying anything more for now...no sense in repeating everything I tried with moving directories etc.
Thanks for you time,
Keith Myers

Answer 1

Non-mangled version ( I hope )
                                             _________ROOT___________
                                            |          |             |
                                        WEB-INF    PotteryPics    index.html
                                            |          |
                                            |       _________
                                            |      |         |
                                            |   Pottery    Utility
                                            |
                                   |        |          |
                               classes     lib      web.xml
                                   |        |
                                   |    catalina-root.jar
                                   |
                                  org
                                   |
                                apache
                                   |
                                  jsp