{"id":1384,"date":"2025-10-07T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/images-not-showing\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:56","slug":"images-not-showing","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/images-not-showing\/","title":{"rendered":"Images Not Showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If images are not showing on your website, the browser may not be able to find or read the image files.<\/p>\n<h2>Check the Image Has Been Uploaded<\/h2>\n<p>Make sure the image file has been uploaded to the correct folder.<\/p>\n<p>If your page loads an image from an <strong>images<\/strong> folder, the image must be inside that folder on the server.<\/p>\n<h2>Check the Image Path<\/h2>\n<p>The image path in your page must match the real location of the file.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if the image is called <strong>photo.gif<\/strong> and is inside an <strong>images<\/strong> folder, the path should point to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>images\/photo.gif<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Check Uppercase and Lowercase Letters<\/h2>\n<p>Linux servers are case sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>This means <strong>Photo.gif<\/strong> and <strong>photo.gif<\/strong> are different filenames.<\/p>\n<p>Check that the filename in your page exactly matches the uploaded file.<\/p>\n<h2>Check File Permissions<\/h2>\n<p>Image files normally need permissions of <strong>644<\/strong> so visitors can view them.<\/p>\n<p>If the permissions are wrong, change them in cPanel File Manager.<\/p>\n<h2>Check Rewrite Rules<\/h2>\n<p>If you use rewrite rules in an <strong>.htaccess<\/strong> file, a mistake in the rule can stop images from loading.<\/p>\n<p>Temporarily disable the rule to test whether it is causing the problem.<\/p>\n<h2>If You Use WordPress or Another Web Application<\/h2>\n<p>If the images are managed by WordPress, Joomla, or another application, the issue may be caused by the application, theme, plugin, cache, or media settings.<\/p>\n<p>Check the application settings first, then contact support if you still need help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If images are not showing on your website, the browser may not be able to find or read the image files. Check the Image&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[26],"class_list":["post-1384","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1384\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}