html - Pictures not showing up on Heroku?

Question

I deployed my static HTML website to Heroku using this tutorial (http://www.lemiffe.com/how-to-deploy-a-static-page-to-heroku-the-easy-way/) and my pictures won\'t show up ?

Answer 1

I had the same problem and found the problem to be the capitalized file type ('.PNG'). I believe Heroku is searching for files without any .toLowerCase() function applied. Which means you must request an exact match between your markup and your file with capitalization being important.

This wasn't a problem on my local node / express server but became an issue after deploying to Heroku. Some of my images were showing up but others were getting 404 errors (i.e. the ones with capitalized file types). The smart thing to do is to always make your file types are lower case.

I changed this:

To this:

I hope this helps anybody that came across this issue as it confused me for at least an hour. Good luck!