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**Category:** General\
**Created:** [12 February 2021 20:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/insert-local-image-into-html-template/40894 "2021-02-12T20:24:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:**  [@sfedo](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sfedo)\
**Post date:** [12 February 2021 20:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/insert-local-image-into-html-template/40894/1 "2021-02-12T20:24:40Z")
Hello,
I'm trying to insert image into my html template. I'm doing this way:
but its not working. How to insert the image??
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**Author:**  [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2021 09:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/insert-local-image-into-html-template/40894/2 "2021-02-13T09:45:36Z")
Files should not be served from your desktop.
To serve a file(image/whatever) the file must be in a served location.
This has been asked and answered many times on the forum. There is also a section in the node-red documentation.
Search the forum for httpStatic.
Here is one such result...
> [@httpStatic and image](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/httpstatic-and-image/1485/7):
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> Aside from the precise location of the settings file, which is important to confirm, when you say: httpStatic: ' home/pi/personal/ ', did you mean: '/home/pi/personal/' - the slash at the front is quite important. Also, you need to restart Node-RED whenever you edit the settings file.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [27 February 2021 09:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/insert-local-image-into-html-template/40894/3 "2021-02-27T09:46:32Z")
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