The image is not displaying using asp.net

Question

In the below code i have a image i have pass image url from codebehind but it is not displaying the image. The url location is C:\\Search\\Searchdoc\\Documents\\Desert.jpeg

 public string strClientName = "Searchdoc";
 public string strDocumentFolder = "Documents";
 string Imgdocname = SearchDoc.DocumentName;
 string fileExt = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(Imgdocname);
 fileExt = fileExt.ToLower();
 if (fileExt == ".jpeg" || fileExt == ".jpg")
 {
     docimg.Src = "~/" + Search+ "/"  + strClientName + "/" + strDocumentFolder + "/" + Imgdocname;
     docimg.Visible = true;
 }
 else
 {
     docimg.Src=  "~/Search/Searchdoc/Documents/image.jpeg";
     docimg.Visible = true;
 }

Answer 1

Well for a start, you are using the ~ character which indicates the root directory of the application.

Since you are saying that the image is in C:\\Search\\Searchdoc\\Documents\\ then that won't be found, since your code is actually looking in projectRoot\\Search\\Searchdoc\\Documents

As for how to get this image to show in a webpage, it won't simply work for accessing it from the C drive. IIS will not serve images that aren't in the web site folder structure. I would suggest moving it into the website.

If you need to keep it stored in a folder outside your website, you would need to look at streaming it, or using a sort of proxy page. Have a look at the answer here: How to display image which is stored in local drive? to get an idea of the proxy method