When you have the beta version of SharePoint 2013 running, you will notice that even if you never installed SharePoint 2010 on your brand new image.
Both the 14 and 15 root folder are available.
This means that we have 2 layouts folders and 2 images folders!
I created 2 small images called test.gif
| C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES\test\test.gif | “14 folder” |
| C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\IMAGES\test\test.gif | “15 folder” |
When I navigated to http://sp/_layouts/images/test/test.gif the following image is shown
But how do we use the content of the 15 directory? Easy!
When we navigate to http://sp/_layouts/15/images/test/test.gif the image in the 15 directory is displayed.
Summary
| {weburl}/_layouts/ | C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS |
| {weburl}/_layouts/images | C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES |
| {weburl}/_layouts/15/ | C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS |
| {weburl}/_layouts/15/images | C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\IMAGES |
Hope it helps!
Tom