# Cannot get external swf's to display on a website

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-get-external-swfs-to-display-on-a-website/263952>\
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**Created:** [June 20, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-get-external-swfs-to-display-on-a-website/263952 "2008-06-20T20:45:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![lariat1997](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/df705f/32.png) [@lariat1997](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lariat1997)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-get-external-swfs-to-display-on-a-website/263952/1 "2008-06-20T20:45:33Z")

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Hey all,

I’ve created a small flash app that uses external swf’s. When I put the app onto my website, the external swf’s don’t work inside of the main swf. When I just double-click on the app on the remote server, it works fine, but when I view it in a webpage on the internet…it does not work right.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![lariat1997](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/df705f/32.png) [@lariat1997](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lariat1997)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-get-external-swfs-to-display-on-a-website/263952/2 "2008-06-24T20:20:33Z")

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Hmmmm…this is unusual to not get a response, especially since it’s been 4 days. Maybe I did not word my original post correctly.

I will try again…

I’ve created a swf file that uses xml to bring in some images. On my local machine it works perfect. So I uploaded the file along with the xml and other images via ftp to a testing site on the internet and the swf file comes up, but the external files do not show in the parent swf file.

I contacted 1&1, the hosting company, and they said I need to use absolute paths not relative paths.

Anyone have experience with this? It seems I should be able to use relative paths too.

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**Author:** ![RubenFlash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@RubenFlash](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RubenFlash)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-get-external-swfs-to-display-on-a-website/263952/3 "2008-06-25T15:00:13Z")

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Are you using relative paths like this: “…/mySwf.swf”?

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**Author:** ![small\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@small\_guy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/small_guy)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-get-external-swfs-to-display-on-a-website/263952/4 "2008-06-25T16:03:31Z")

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Obviously I don’t know what you might be using to upload your files.

Last year I was briefly without Dreamweaver and tried using GoLive. With GoLive I had the issue you are describing wherein the main swf played fine but the external swfs did not.

Again, I don’t know what you are using so this point may not have anything to do with the conversation.

[QUOTE=bataglia;2348891]show me the website and I will show you the error. send me an email better[/QUOTE]