SDL Contextual Image Delivery not generating the cropped Image

Question

I have followed SDL documentation for SDL Contextual Image Delivery and have done the below steps.

1. Installing the API Server Role as a .NET Web application
2. Installing the Image Transformation Handler in a .NET Web application
3. Installing Context Engine Cartridge

I have provided img element in the page as follows

<img src="mywebsite.com/cid/scale/100/source/http://myImageWebsite.com/Images/someImage.jpg">

I also tried

<img src="mywebsite.com/cid/scale/100/source/source/Image/someImage.jpg">

when I load the page the folders with path /cid/scale/100/source/ gets created automatically in my web application but the cropped image is not generated.

Please let me know if I am missing anything.

Thanks, Sunil

Answer 1

In the SDL documentation on CID, its mentioned that we have to update the web.config as mentioned below

<location path="CUSTOM/PATH">
  <system.webServer>
     <handlers>
       <add name="ImageTransformerHandler" verb="*" path="CUSTOM/PATH/*" type="Tridion.Context.Image.Handler.ImageTransformerHandler" />
     </handlers>
  </system.webServer>
</location>

where /CUSTOM/PATH refers to the customized URL that you want the image transformer to run against. If you do not want to create a customized URL, omit the path attribute from the location element and set to the path attribute of the add element to *.

If we provide Path=”*” in web.config as shown below, then the log gets generated and nothing happens

<handlers>
 <add name="ImageTransformerHandler" verb="*" path=" *" type="Tridion.Context.Image.Handler.ImageTransformerHandler"  />
</handlers>

If we provide Path=” http://mywebsite/*” in web.config as shown below, then the log will not be generated but the folders structure (\cid\trim\100\source) get created automatically in mywebsite.com

<handlers>
 <add name="ImageTransformerHandler" verb="*" path=" http://mywebsite/*" type="Tridion.Context.Image.Handler.ImageTransformerHandler"  />
</handlers>

I am not clear on what exactly we have to provide in the PATH attribute.