Some images can’t be found – MLP defaulting to server absolute path

  • Resolved adrienm

    (@adrienm)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    Some images are not being found to move(or copy) even though they show up in the MLP library and the standard Media Library. (and I can get to them from FTP, and the site itself, so they really do exist)

    It seems all of these are trying to be found by MLP by using the server’s document root path, not the URL used in the guid. e.g—instead of MLP looking at https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/.. it is looking at /home/username/public_html/wp-content/uploads/.. Which technically IS the correct absolute path if you were to be traversing via FTP, but MLP didn’t look there for any other images, and it seems to be choking on this path.

    I can’t determine why MLP is not reading the guid field and using that URL for these files like it does the others.

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  • Thread Starter adrienm

    (@adrienm)

    Update: examining the site via FTP shows the files in fact were moved. Hard refreshing the MLP page still shows entries for the suspect files in the original location, but without thumbnails. Perhaps a MLP Reset is in order?

    Also, not sure if this is related, but right after that hard refresh, MLP is killing my hosts CPU, memory and entry process limits. I’ve received a 508 Resource error twice now.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by adrienm.
    Thread Starter adrienm

    (@adrienm)

    Update: so I went ahead and reset MLP. The flaky entries still show up without thumbnails. The plugin is still spiking my hosts memory, cpu and entry process limits.

    Now, after reading other support threads, I find out that the 400 images I just moved didn’t get their links updated throughout my database and that I have to do this manually. (re-attaching to posts/products) What’s the point of this plugin? I can manually create folders in FTP and move files around that way. I guess it’s ‘nice’ to be able to do that straight from within WordPress, but if I have to manually re-link every image when I re-organize that’s more work than just typing in good alt text and using the built in filter/search function of the WordPress Media Library.

    Now I’m hitting 508 resource errors every minute or so. I’m just removing this. It’s a very promising idea, but poor coding makes this one a no-go. Sorry.

    Plugin Author AlanP57

    (@alanp57)

    Sometime sites have errors in their Media Library data which cause problem for MLP. Why don’t you email me at [email protected] and we can see what can be done to debug the site.

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