WordPress not outputting media URLs (NOTE: Not your average problem)

  • Was having this problem before upgrading to 4.0, but upgrading sadly did not resolve my problem.

    I first noticed the problem when I realized that my WP Galleries were not displaying correctly. Looking at the source, it seems that the gallery shortcode was outputting everything correctly with exception to the image source. So the href was not pointed to the image location, and the image tag itself was missing the src.

    It looked similar to:

    <dt class='gallery-icon '> <a href=''><img src ="" alt ="Awds2014-412" /></a> </dt>

    So I log into the site and edit the page with the gallery, but in the media all I see is a sea of this. https://sgdwebsites.com/delete/1.jpg. So I figure the images are somehow delete off the server. I FTP and all of the images are there. Weird. Looking at this – https://sgdwebsites.com/delete/2.jpg – shows that WordPress still has the URL correctly entered, and copy/pasting the URL into the browser sucessfully shows the image. Even shows up in a proxy. https://sgdwebsites.com/delete/3.jpg

    So now I figure that for some reason the thumbnails got messed up, so I installed the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin – but no luck. As soon as it get’s to those images it claims that the image cannot be found on the server.

    I’m seriously at a loss here as nothing has changed on the site in the past month, and I know that this was working up to a week ago at least.

    I have reverted back to default theme and disabled all plugins to no effect. There are a TON of images that have been a affected so the last thing I want to do is re-upload all of my galleries just to risk having this happen again.

    I hope this report has been detailed enough and any help or far fetched ideas would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    What’s in your .htaccess?

    Thread Starter Harmonic Design

    (@harmonic_design)

    Nothing unusual

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    *ponder* Do NEW images work?

    Does your host have anti-hotlinking or such protection?

    Can you get at your server error logs?

    Thread Starter Harmonic Design

    (@harmonic_design)

    The site is hosted with GoDaddy Linux cPanel and no anti-hotlinking is enabled. I’ve also been in contact with the GoDaddy support and got no where (obviously haha) but I did get their assurances that they have not made any changes to the server.

    The error log in cPanel is empty :s

    Uploaded new images works, it just images that were uploaded past a certain date that this happened too.

    I’m not too worried about getting the galleries back as I can always re upload (although I’d much rather not because there are so many!); my primary concern is knowing how something like this could have happened, and how I can prevent it from happening again.

    Thank you for your help so far!

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