Website Design Forum

**CMitch07** · 01-01-2009, 07:55 PM

Hi all,
tried to post this on the Web Hosting section but i've yet to rack up the required number of posts to do so and here I am.

I have a website hosted on GoDaddy, been using it for a while to show off pics and whatnot and just created a little Flash anim that slideshows a couple of images that when click lead off to other sites. Tested this locally and it runs fine, but uploaded onto the GoDaddy site and the flash anim does not display. In fact there does not even show a placeholder for the anim.
My browser does allow Flash anims, tested by visiting other sites that display Flash anims. we also tested this on the Missus' laptop and again it does not show. Both the .fla and .swf are uploaded to the site and the code points to the correct directory as they are both on the root directory so..........
starting to think that there is something on GoDaddy that needs to be changed but cannot for the life of me see what or where.
Has anyone else come across this problem before, can anyone offer any advice?

Cheers in advance,
Mitch...

**chrishirst** · 01-02-2009, 02:01 AM

Flash is a client side operation so the hosting will make no difference at all, unless you are using a site builder system that does not allow for <object> elements.

Check the source of the rendered page to see if the code is the same as you uploaded .
Other than that we need a URI.

**CMitch07** · 04:15 AM

Cheers for the reply Chris.

OK, looks like its not a problem at GoDaddy as I can access the swf file from my site directly but embedding the swf on a htm page does not work.
Looking at this code from the htm file :

HTML Code:

<script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<table width="900" border="0" align="center">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top"><img src="header001 copy.jpg" width="900" height="50" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="3" align="left" valign="top"><script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','900','height','300','title','header','src','FrontAnim01','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','FrontAnim01' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="900" height="300" title="header">
      <param name="movie" value="FrontAnim01.swf" />
      <param name="quality" value="high" />
      <embed src="FrontAnim01.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="900" height="300"></embed>
    </object></noscript></td>

Someone suggested I find and upload the file AC_FL_RunContent which I could not locate but I did find the file AC_RunActiveContent.js in the scripts folder which contains the function AC_FL_RunContent. I uploaded the file to the root folder and a new folder named Scripts but alas still no joy.
Any ideas, looking at the code above ?
Thanks in advance,
Mitch....

**chrishirst** · 01-04-2009, 04:18 AM

Any javascript errors?

are the file and folder names exactly the same as in the code? (*nix servers are case sensitive)