Issue with file access in blogs.dir

Good Question, seems to be a little bit of an issue lately. What once was open, now is closed from being valid urls. I hope those who are in the know, have a good direction to go and let us know.

Yes, that’s a rewriting issue, because the error message you’re seeing when you try to access the file you’ve mentioned comes from your web server (Apache), not from WordPress.

Can you show us your .htaccess file?

Something is likely wrong with your .htaccess file. Can you put yours in pastebin and post the link here?

Here is mine, same issue only with files.

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond $1 ^(index\.php)?$ [OR]
RewriteCond $1 \.(gif|jpg|ico|css|js)$ [NC,OR]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [S=1]

# 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).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress

You have some extra stuff in there. Stuff is a technical term ??

# BEGIN WordPress
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).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress

Accessing https://testgallery.dualcoregroup.com/wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=2011/07/lae084143-m13x3.jpg works fine, so it’s definitely a rewrite problem.

As a test, change this line:

RewriteCond $1 \.(gif|jpg|ico|css|js)$ [NC,OR]

into something like:

RewriteCond $1 \.(gif|jpgxx|ico|css|js)$ [NC,OR]

and check accessing https://testgallery.dualcoregroup.com/files/2011/07/lae084143-m13x3.jpg again.

Thanks for answering questions. So far removing the stuff did no good and the suggesting of rewritecond didn’t work either.

Which is okay, just going to take a little more time to figure why I took a left turn at Albuquerque instead of a right.

From my site and posting on this thread because the issue is to me the same and I don’t like make 100 different forum post for the same thing. If I can help it.

Site Url:https://lovemygame.com/lucifersarcade/
Permalink Structure:/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
Upload Files Directory: wp-content/blogs.dir/9/files
File Upload Directory: https://lovemygame.com/lucifersarcade/files
If I have say a logo URL pointing here https://lovemygame/wp-content/blogs.dir/9/files/lal.png it works just fine, but if I use https://lovemygame.com/lucifersarcade/files/lal.png it gives a 404.

The above is from the settings page for the web site in the Site Admin. If I log into the dashboard the permalink structure is set to this https://lovemygame.com/lucifersarcade/2011/07/13/sample-post/.

It might be a case of having to update the permalink structure which is no big deal. I don’t know where or what setting that got changed to make it different. I know I have been working hard to get my Google Page Speed and YSlow Performance up higher which is now at 92 for Google and 90 for YSlow. 1.5 second load time. Cool part by adjusting the main site the benefit is carried over to the multi-sites as well. If you have time to point me in the right direction when you have a chance that would be great. Would like to get back to helping with plugin developers and language translations. Which is fun and time consuming as well. I check back later have to do the day job thing back to testing software. Thanks

Basically if the rewrite stops working there are three likely causes.

1) The files aren’t there (we know that’s not the case)
2) The htaccess is wrong (seems to be okay)
3) Your htaccess isn’t being read

You’re going to need to go into httpd.conf on your server and see if AllowOverride is set to ALL.

?? Awesome…:)

I woke up and so many replies… :)..

Ipstenu – Thanks you were right once again.. :).. AllowOverride was the issue… :)..

Je vous en prie ??