Images don't show

You upgraded from WPMU 2.9.x and didn’t edit the .htaccess correctly.

Try this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

It was a fresh install, not an upgrade. But, that file is up there – no change!

But, that file is up there – no change!

You mean you changed your .htaccess to what I suggested? Sorry, I just want to be clear you’re not trying to say that your .htaccess (posted above) is the same as the one I posted ??

I know you have some multi-domain plugin in use, but did you setup WordPress to install new blogs as subdomains or subfolders?

Sorry – I should have said – yes, I used yours exactly as is and I set it up to install new blogs as subdomains.

Ah, okay, try this instead:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Well, that one is up there and we have progressed to the following error when you view source on the page and click on the last image URL:

404 — File not found.

The file is up there for sure.

You lost me there. View source and THEN click on the last image? I might need to see this one to grok.

In .htaccess I replaced the line

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

with

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

and it’s ok now with the URLs like:
your-mu-wordpress-blog.com/files/2010/09/filename.jpg

Thank you ipstenu

ciceronedotro, yeah, that’s always a requirement and, for upgrades, you should have been told to do so.

The blogs.php line is from OLD WPMU, so the only way to get that is to install 2.9.2 (or whatever) of WPMU and upgrade to 3.0 ??

ipstenu

Seems like your last iteration worked. What I meant (above) was that I had put two images in that post. One hard-coded to the root website and the other inserted the normal way into a child subdomain site at the end of that page. The second one would not show. However, today on ANOTHER child subdomain site, I was able to upload a graphic. AND, when I went back to https://www.bremondhouse.com, I was able to upload a new graphic to the site and have it show, but NOT an old one that was already up there.

I didn’t take the last two changes (ms-files.php versus blog.dir).

davewarnerrecorder – Cool! Okay, I get it ??

The reason the second .htaccess works is b/c there is a difference between subdomains and subfolders .htaccess config. The install process SHOULD have told you which one, and I’m stymied as to why it had you put in blogs.php in yours. But bygones. Fixed one, don’t care.

Are old images failing to show? And can you link to a post where the problem is happening? We may need to do some .htaccess trickery with redirects for you.

I don’t know. Anyway, like you say – fixed is good! Look at https://www.bremondhouse.com/about/ There is one image that shows and one that doesn’t (when you search the code). The second one is an old image, the first is hard-coded from the root mu site images directory. Not a big deal, but I put it back in there to show you. On the htaccess – does that only reside in the root, or should it be in another directory as well?

.htaccess JUST in root.

Did you upgrade from an old version of WordPress or WPMU perchance?

Anyway.

Broken: https://www.bremondhouse.com/files/2010/07/10-24-02-005_deb1.jpg
Works: https://www.weeklyexpressnews.com/images/10-24-02-005_deb.jpg

Okay!

The broken link should be redirected to this:
https://www.bremondhouse.com/wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=2010/07/10-24-02-005_deb1.jpg

You don’t see the redirect, but that’s okay. Still, THAT is a 404 as well.

The file itself should be uploaded in something like:
https://www.bremondhouse.com/wp-conent/blogs.dir/1/files/2010/07/10-24-02-005_deb1.jpg

Can you check that it’s there?

You know – it WOULD give an error because I had read that the word file or files in the path was a problem and I moved them to an images directory. Doh! Anyway, that was the only place it was NOT working now that you have given me the correct HTACCESS, so THANK YOU! I have been chasing a solution for weeks…

*salute* No prob ??