How can one ensure that the web server can access the external Windows server when displaying images in PHP?

To ensure that the web server can access the external Windows server when displaying images in PHP, you can use the UNC (Universal Naming Convention) path to specify the location of the images on the Windows server. This will allow the web server to access the images using the network path.

<?php
$image_path = '\\\\external_server\\images\\image.jpg';
echo '<img src="' . $image_path . '" alt="Image">';
?>