404 error Fancy Box - possible missing files?

[Colin]

Sayontan, this may be a bug or it may just be a bad install on my site but I am getting 404 errors for various Fancy Box images, are these missing or is it a unique error to me? See below

/fancybox/fancy_shadow_s.png
/fancybox/fancy_shadow_nw.png
/fancybox/fancy_shadow_sw.png
/fancybox/fancy_shadow_w.png
/fancybox/fancy_shadow_ne.png
/fancybox/fancy_shadow_e.png
/fancybox/fancy_shadow_n.png
/fancybox/fancy_shadow_se.png

[sayontan]

I am not seeing any errors on your site. What are the steps to replicate?

[Colin]

Hi Sayontan, no steps to replicate just by looking at the sites AWstats. Showing several 404's on each of those files. What folder are they supposed to be in so I can check by ftp?

[sayontan]

They are in include/scripts/fancybox.

[Colin]

Ignore this it must be JOTTT as all the files are there in the folder, maybe it was a server glitch.

[tsuchan]

This thread is quite old, but lets see if it can be resurrected...

I don't believe servers glitch about files that are requested, and I have a similar problem.

These fancy_shadow_*.png files are referenced a stylesheet: jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css
They're in a class called fancybox-ie, and an id called #fancybox-bg-*
Here's the line:

.fancybox-ie #fancybox-bg-s { filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='fancy_shadow_s.png', sizingMethod='scale'); }

And the stylesheet seems to be called by a JavaScript file called jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js
which seems to be a standard include in pages or templates using fancybox.

So we now gather that this is IE-specific, and we can replicate it by calling pages referencing jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js with an IE browser. (Sadly, this is the part where it goes wrong for me... I can't replicate it in any browser; but it is apparently being triggered in IE8 at least... so my web server logs say.

My solution would to just remove all the 404 images from the CSS file. They're not being rendered at the moment, clearly; and I don't miss them.

[sayontan]

Thanks for the research on this. I will follow up on this in the next version.

[centauri]

I too have this error, with the latest version

[julierachlin1]

This was driving me mad... thousands of errors. I resolved it by COPYING all of the fancybox .png files from the scripts/fancybox directory to the scripts directory. The scripts directory is where the javascript runs from. The css file in scripts/fancybox points to images as follows: url('fancybox.png'). This implies that the image is stored in the same directory as the .js file (in scripts), resulting in 404 errors time and again. On upgrade, I will probably have to copy the image files again to the scripts directory but no errors in the last 2 hours since I made this change. Hope it helps someone else too.