# Can't get SWF player to display in webpage **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 18, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-swf-player-to-display-in-webpage/165876 "2009-04-18T20:14:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubio)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-swf-player-to-display-in-webpage/165876/1 "2009-04-18T20:14:35Z")
Found a great link ([Eleventyten.com is for sale | HugeDomains](http://blog.eleventyten.com/2007/6/8/embedding-swf-content-with-ror/)) describing adding Flash content (in this case playerMultipleList.swf) in a “rails” webpage. I’ve followed the instructions to a “T”, however the player doesn’t display on the page … just the words playerMultipleList.swf appear ☹ Everything else is working great after retrofitting the pages to the ROR framework, but this is one of the most important features. If you have experience with this and would kindly share it, I will greatly appreciate it! Please see attachment for the code I’m using ! Thanks Rubio ---
**Author:** ![rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubio)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-swf-player-to-display-in-webpage/165876/2 "2009-04-18T20:52:23Z")
On Apr 18, 7:14 pm, Rubio R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > experience with this and would kindly share it, I will greatly > appreciate it! The path to playerMultipleList.swf looks suspicious to me - if it is at RAILS\_ROOT/public/swf/playerMultipleList.swf then the path to it (from the browser’s point of view) is just /swf/playerMultipleList.swf (since the document root should be RAILS\_ROOT/public) Fred ---
**Author:** ![rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubio)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-swf-player-to-display-in-webpage/165876/3 "2009-04-18T23:06:29Z")
Frederick C. wrote: > On Apr 18, 7:14�pm, Rubio R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > wrote: > > > experience with this and would kindly share it, I will greatly > > appreciate it! > > The path to playerMultipleList.swf looks suspicious to me - if it is > at RAILS\_ROOT/public/swf/playerMultipleList.swf then the path to it > (from the browser’s point of view) is just /swf/playerMultipleList.swf > (since the document root should be RAILS\_ROOT/public) > > Fred Fred Thanks for the quick reply. I initially had the path as /swf/playerMultipleList.swf as you suggest, but it didn’t grab the player in that case either (and I’ve checked and made sure that the player is in RAILS\_ROOT/public/swf. But, theoretically you’re absolutely right. I’ll keep digging; it’s prob just some little something I’m not seeing! Thanks, again R ---
**Author:** ![rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubio)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-swf-player-to-display-in-webpage/165876/4 "2009-04-21T15:42:22Z")
Not sure, but some Flash players require not the path, but an absolute URL, so instead of having: …/…/…/public/swf/playerMultipleList.swf you should generate something like: [http://www.theapp.com/swf/playerMultipleList.swf](http://www.theapp.com/swf/playerMultipleList.swf) And also there should be no ‘public’ in the URL. Dmitry ---
**Author:** ![rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubio)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-swf-player-to-display-in-webpage/165876/5 "2009-04-21T21:30:32Z")
Dmitry S. wrote: > Not sure, but some Flash players require not the path, but an absolute > URL, so instead of having: > …/…/…/public/swf/playerMultipleList.swf > > you should generate something like: > [http://www.theapp.com/swf/playerMultipleList.swf](http://www.theapp.com/swf/playerMultipleList.swf) > > And also there should be no ‘public’ in the URL. > > Dmitry Dmitry - please see the attachment! It’s working now, but with the path specified simply as /swf/playerMultipleList.swf. Problem seemed to be an incorrect swfobject.js. As soon as I copied the original from the download to the #{RAILS\_ROOT}/public/javascripts folder, the player appeared however, unfortunately there’s still a problem … the tracks don’t appear (get undefined where a track should be) even though I used the same pathing convention to point to public/Sounds (should evaluate to #{RAILS\_ROOT}/public/Sounds just as the swf path evaluated to #{RAILS\_ROOT}/public/swf and found the player. At first I thought this problem would be a piece of cake, but now after trying the same convention I just mentioned, as well as the relative path, and absolute path to the myPlayList.xml still just “undefined” for the track … please see the attachment for a screen shot of this. and the current code as well. If you have any ideas, it’s greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time ---
**Author:** ![rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubio)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-swf-player-to-display-in-webpage/165876/6 "2009-04-21T22:32:56Z")
Hi Rubio, Yep, as I remember eiter Flash object, either content should be a path, and another one should be a URL. So, if the Flash player requires just a path (/swf/playerMultipleList.swf), then I think that the content should be provided as a full URL ([http://www.theapp.com/](http://www.theapp.com/) Sounds/song.mp3) Dmitry On Apr 21, 11:30 pm, Rubio R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@rubio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubio)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-get-swf-player-to-display-in-webpage/165876/7 "2010-08-05T21:08:06Z")
Rubio R. wrote: > Dmitry S. wrote: > > > Not sure, but some Flash players require not the path, but an absolute > > URL, so instead of having: > > …/…/…/public/swf/playerMultipleList.swf > > > > you should generate something like: > > [http://www.theapp.com/swf/playerMultipleList.swf](http://www.theapp.com/swf/playerMultipleList.swf) > > > > And also there should be no ‘public’ in the URL. > > > > Dmitry > > Dmitry - please see the attachment! > > It’s working now, but with the path specified simply as > /swf/playerMultipleList.swf. Problem seemed to be an incorrect > swfobject.js. As soon as I copied the original from the download to the > #{RAILS\_ROOT}/public/javascripts folder, the player appeared however, > unfortunately there’s still a problem … the tracks don’t appear (get > undefined where a track should be) even though I used the same pathing > convention to point to public/Sounds (should evaluate to > #{RAILS\_ROOT}/public/Sounds just as the swf path evaluated to > #{RAILS\_ROOT}/public/swf and found the player. > > At first I thought this problem would be a piece of cake, but now after > trying the same convention I just mentioned, as well as the relative > path, and absolute path to the myPlayList.xml still just “undefined” for > the track … please see the attachment for a screen shot of this. and > the current code as well. > > If you have any ideas, it’s greatly appreciated. > > Thanks for your time Rubio, I’m having this same problem. I tried relative paths and then an absolute path [http://localhost:3000/public/music/playlist.xml](http://localhost:3000/public/music/playlist.xml) and could not get it to work. How did you solve this? Thanks, Kelly