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August 30, 2018
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Images in Design View (CS6) not displaying after installing LetsEncrypt

  • August 30, 2018
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Recently changed dedicated servers (Plesk Onyx 17 / Windows Server 2016) and installed LetsEncrypt to comply with upcoming SSL requirements from the browser folks. After this change, pages load in browsers as SECURE just fine. But when designing pages in DW CS6 with images on that secure server, the image preview doesn't display Design View as it had prior to the LE installation. When viewing in Live View, images display as they should. I have tried changing the absolute links from http://site.com/image.jpg to https://site.com/image.jpg...nothing. When the images are referenced locally, everything shows up fine. So it IS possible to do the design locally and then insert the appropriate absolute https link. But this seems to me to be an unnecessary additional waste of my time.

Seeing as how three components are in play (new server + LetsEncrypt + local computer/software), and two have been modified essentially simultaneously, I am not sure where the issues might reside.

I have scoured the settings in DW (and searched MANY support forums) to see if there is some box to un/check that might fix this issue and I have come up with no solutions. Hoping the smart folks here can provide some guidance. Thanks in advance

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    pziecina
    pziecina
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    August 30, 2018

    Design view has no browser capabilities, unlike live view. Live view and your server are sending, (your server) and de-encrypting (live view) the image code, so you can see the images. Design view on the other hand has no such capability, so the image is not being displayed.

    The only way around this problem is to work with local files, (and images). I do not know if the lates version of Dw support working with a secure connection in design view, but I doubt it as design view has not been updated in years.

    cvh360com
    cvh360comAuthor
    Participant
    August 30, 2018

    So there is no modification to Server Settings (FTP port, root directory, or anything else) that would fix this? I do get that Design View is not itself a browser, but it was properly displaying the remote images a week ago...so the issue here is that Design View simply doesn't have any capability for de-encrypting the file(s)?

    cvh360com
    cvh360comAuthor
    Participant
    August 30, 2018

    And so I guess the next question would be is there an updated/better version of an Adobe web designing software package that DOES have that capability? Cloud Services...?

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