Image Uploads to Wrong Directory?

No, it’s blank. Should it contain something?

The value on my working system is blank.

You don’t have anything weird in the WordPress or Blog address (URL) in Settings->General?

Nothing weird… just the website URL, which has been the same for over 2 years now.

I think I’ll test a completely new installation and see if I can get it to work with my host. I can’t imagine that the host is the issue, but I could rule it out if I can get a clean installation to work.

Okay, that’s REALLY weird. A clean install using 2.5.1 (with no options changed at all from the default installation) is behaving exactly the same.

Could this be something caused by my webhost?

Good luck–sorry wasn’t able to contribute more to your problem solution.

I appreciate your help, MichaelH.

BTW–just checked with a friend who has a Network Solutions domain with WordPress 2.5.1, and uploads are going into wp-content/uploads/2008/xx folders. So uploads folder is in /htdocs/wordpress/wp-content and he accesses blog as https://www.domain.com/wordpress

So odds are it’s not the webhost, unless there’s something different about the server my site is hosted on and the server your friend’s is on (an unlikely thing, for sure).

This is so strange.

jstickley: Thanks for the reminder on post etiqutte I do apolgize for this

No biggie. It’s just better for everyone if threads focus on specific issues.

Anyone have any other ideas in regard to my original problem of photo uploads working, but sending files to the wrong path (wp-admin/wp-content/uploads rather than wp-content/uploads)? I really just don’t understand how a completely clean installation of wordpress using all the default settings can have problems like this. I’ve tried the no flash photo uploader and the flexible upload plugin as workarounds… all with the same results. Same results with IE7 and Firefox running on either Vista or XP.

This definitely seems like either a server-side issue or something in the code, but I’m completely out of ideas as to what else to try.

Any thoughts?

Just installed WordPress 2.5.1 on a Network Solutions host. Interstingly, wp-content and sub-folders had ‘drwxrwsr-w” permissions that I set to 777.

Then uploaded a photo as part of a post, and published the post successfully. It created the wp-content/uploads folder as well as the 2008 and 05 subfolders and put 3 image files in that folder (wp-content/uploads/2008/05). Also a js_cache folder was created in the uploads folder.

In wp_options, upload_url_path was blank, upload_path was wp-content/uploads and uploads_use_yearmonth_folders was 1

I’m still having the same problem. When I try the image upload, it creates the js_cache directory in the correct location, but the wp-content/uploads/2008/05 path is created in wp-admin.

I’ve got the same settings in wp_options that you do.

I don’t think the 775 permissions (‘drwxrwxr-x’) on the folders make a difference; I’ve tried permissions both ways with the same results.

any resolution to this jstickley?

I’ve just moved my WordPress installation to a host (not Network Solutions) and am experiencing this as well. Also on a fresh 2.5.1 installation.

jstickley, I am also having the same problem as you with some of my WordPress installs.

And the problems websites are hosted at Network Solutions. And I’m with you on thinking that it might be a server-side issue, even if it’s not specifically Network Solutions.

I’m afraid I don’t have a fix either, my problem sites are still quite broken. But I’m more than willing to add any information I can.