Why does WordPress not see files in the directory?

  • I did not even know how to ask the question. There doesn’t seem to be any posts about this problem.

    Web protocol and HTML say when you put in an absolute URL, that page should show.

    We have collections of graphics sitting on the server, but WordPRess will NOT allow us to show the graphic. Why is this, and how can we fix it?

    This graphic was FTP’d to the server : it’s there :
    https://www.graphic-design.com/design-bookshelf/day_of_the_dead/images/clip_5.jpg

    WordPress prevents it from being accessed. There are tens of thousands of images on the server that would come up under a Drupal site, but when we converted to WordPress it killed them all. We cannot install all of the graphics into the “Library” ot into Word Press, it’s already so slow, we don’t dare import a hundred-thousand images,

    Is there a work around?

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  • WordPRess will NOT allow us to show the graphic. Why is this, and how can we fix it?

    WordPress doesn’t prevent you from accessing files or linking to them or showing them in <img> tags. But it will only help you with the ones it knows about, which are in the database (also external URLs can be entered in some places).
    If you are being “prevented”, you must have some plugin doing that or some rules in Nginx or .htacess.
    There are some gallery plugins to show all the files in a folder.

    The link you’ve provided results in a ‘File not found’-error.
    I’m afraid this has nothing to do with WordPress.

    Thread Starter 60secondz

    (@60secondz)

    @willem0

    That’s the problem. The file is really there at that URL.
    I FTP’d the file three times thinking it was somehow
    broken.

    However, the root DOMAIN does not “see” it.

    At any case this seems NOT to be a WordPress-problem.
    Your picture with link http: // https://www.graphic-design .com/design-bookshelf/day_of_the_dead/images/clip_5.jpg
    should be seen in every browser, if this clip_5.jpg is really existing in that directory.
    Are you sure the names (and underscores) are correct?

    Thread Starter 60secondz

    (@60secondz)

    . . WELL, i had a screen capture of the FTP showing the file in the directory.

    What I found interesting while poking around however is I moved it to a non-Wordpress site, and it opens fine.

    But here’s the rub . . . several hundred other images, and html pages ALSO refult in a 404 from WordPress. Like they’ve been there, in the site prior to Drupal (the 1990s) then they were there and worked perfectly under Drupal (2000s) and now, having been orphaned by Drupal, and Media Temple screwing me, I hired a guy and paid him to move the site and set up that WordPress site, and they all berak. 20+ years of web content.

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