Flash not showing up?

[VIPStephan]

Would any of you be so kind and look at this site (http://ulman.info/cms) and tell me whether or not the Flash menu is showing up? The client has told me it wouldn’t show up until he’s logged into the admin panel at least once. I can’t reproduce it on my side, though.

Thanks.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

Shows up fine for me. Maybe you are checking for a different version of flash in the swfcode on the admin side?

[abduraooft]

It's OK for me in my FF2 (with flash player-10)

[jerry62704]

I see it in FF3 and IE6 (News ... Language).

[PappaJohn]

Looks fine in FF3, IE7, Opera, Safari & Chrome

[VIPStephan]

Sorry for not getting back earlier and thanks for your time. Everybody I’ve been asking said it would work alright, just on his computers (all two he’s got) it’s not working. Could it be a router or internet provider issue?

Aero, it’s not even using the Flash object on the admin side and the code is only included in one template which is the same throughout most pages of the site so there’s no reason why it goes like that. I’m at my wits’ end.

On the other hand, I might be able to assume it’s just an issue on his computer and other people won’t have problems.

[Apostropartheid]

Is he sure he has Flash Player actually installed? Maybe there's a cookie issue? Has he tried hard-refreshing?

[VIPStephan]

After racking my brain about this and suspecting it would have something to do with the site residing in a subdirectory (“/cms” that is) I copied a single static HTML file and all the menu related files to the root, discovering that the <base /> element must have screwed things up!! This is awesome and aggravating at the same time. Awesome because I’ve finaly found out where the issue was and aggravating because I’m asking myself why in the world it works on 90% of the computers and it doesn’t on 10%.

So, knowing the reason (base element), can anybody tell me why this happens on some machines (OS independet, as it seems) only?

[VIPStephan]

This is soooo stupid!
OK, so I kinda found out that it had something to do with absolute and relative file paths not being read correctly I changed all possible paths to absolute and it would show up but then the guy was telling me he couldn’t click any link in that Flash object unless he clicked a regular link on a page before.

And I soooo racked my brain again for hours and hours until he asked me if it would relate to the “www” in front of the domain name, and guess what? That was the whole issue! The thing was that I set the root domain of the CMS to something like http://example.com/cms and it all worked for me but he accessed the site at http://www.example.com/cms, and that wouldn’t work (clicking the links). And now I even understand why he had to click a regular link before, because that would lead him to the domain without “www”, and then he would be able to click a link. Stupid “www”! That’s causing trouble all along! Especially with freaking amateur server administrators not setting up their servers correctly and treating http://example.com and http://www.example.com differently when it’s just wrong. I mean if they would actually treat it completely differently so that an “address not found” error would come up if accessing the site with the wrong (sub)domain that would be a lot more helpful than a crappy redirection/association of www and non-www domains! :mad: And an htaccess redirect wouldn’t work as well so that makes this even worse.

When will the stupidity finally end??

[Apostropartheid]

Why wouldn't a htaccess fix work? & surely, Stephan, if you calmed down a second and stop swearing (it's bordering on inappropriate) you could contact the server admin and ask them to do the switch for you?

[VIPStephan]

Why wouldn't a htaccess fix work? & surely, Stephan, if you calmed down a second and stop swearing (it's bordering on inappropriate) you could contact the server admin and ask them to do the switch for you?

Sorry, this really annoyed at that moment. Sure, I could – and will – ask the admin but I find it annoying that people don’t do it right in the first place which costs me time and nerves. Also I’m sure an htaccess redirect will work but for some reason it didn’t in this sub directory. Maybe I was just blind of rage to find the error but my point was that I hate it if I have to continually ask for things the admin should take care of in the first place. Why am I required to fix server settings? They would just have to be set up correctly right away.

Sorry for losing control over myself. I’m calm, I’m calm…