Body background image wont display

Have tried everything but can't get basic body background image to display. I can change background to a basic color but it wont pick up an image. Have checked path to image and even tried creating a new image folder in the root and pointing to that but no joy at all. Please help! Thanks.

I've tried
background: http://www.mydomain.info/wp-content/...es/myphoto.jpg
background-image: as above
background image: transparent as above
Also tried all these but with a .gif file
Also tried both .gif and .jpg but without the http://
I use godaddy and WP is directly in the root of my domain alias so the url address does not have /blog or anything like that it's just mydomain.info