calisun

Thanks

Both of you, thank you for your answers.
sacredpath, your solution is exactly what I was looking for, thanks

Thanks, I just thought that all blogs go into /blogs.dir/,

working fine now,
Thanks

That it’s JUST the images speaks to the standard issues with your server not liking the .htaccess rules

I would agree with you, except that for my Drupal installation and Simple Machines Forum (SMF), on the same server, I use “nice” URL’s and the images inside these posts show up correctly.

So there must be something that wordpress needs or is trying to do something, that other programs do not, that is not agreeing with the server.

Another strange thing, I also have Drupal, Simple Machines Forum and one another custom program installed on this server, and they all have no issues with images and “nice” URL’s, but WordPress does.

I would be curious to find if all the people here that have issues with images in WordPress, what flavor of linux are they using.

I am suspecting that the issue might be linux flavor specific.
(Many times I could get “a” program to work on one flavor of linux very easy, it took a lot of work to get it to work on different linux, and it did not work at all on third flavor of linux)

Is there a way to create a poll in this forum, so we can know for sure if the issue is linux flavor specific? It could be an easy fix if we know exactly what the issue is.

The poll could be something like this:

Do you have problem with images in your multisite wordpress?
               YES               NO
What version of Linux server are you using?

*Debian,     *Red Hat,     *SUSE,     *Mandriva
Ubuntu       CentOS        Novell      Conectiva
Knoppix      Fedora        etc..       etc...
Linspire     etc...
etc..

This is only an example, it would be more specific done by linux expert.

Yes, I have tried at least half a dozen different htaccess suggested fixes/versions from here and from other sites without success, and yes my httpd.conf is set to AllowOverride All.

I think it is a compatibility issue with the OS I am using. The linux server I am using, SME Server, is based on CentOs, but it is different. It uses templeting system and web pages are not stored in a standard location, they are in what they call “information bay” “iBay”.

If anybody has a success with running wordpress multisite on SME Server, please let me know how.

SME Server: https://www.contribs.org
Using SME V. 8b6

Ok, now I see what is going on, I was thinking that I might have to change htaccess because of what I am doing with my wordpress install, but I have forgotten about doing it.

No, I have not switched between subDOMAIN and subFOLDER, I am still curently using subDOMAIN, but what I am doing is:

I am hosting several top level domains on one multisite install without using domain mapping plugin. I accomplish this by:

Whenever I create a new site in WP, it looks like this:
newSite.PrimarySite.com
but what I do after site creation is, I go to site settings and I manually change:

newSite.PrimarySite.com
to
newSite.com

All top level domains worked fine, except for upload issues and issues with “nice” URL’s. (Default permalinks worked OK)
But now that I use subFOLDER htaccess for my funky subDOMAIN install, everything works fine.

Only if I have acted on my first thought of using subFOLDER htaccess few months back, I would have saved myself a lot of frustration. But I guess I am starting to forget things in my old age ??

Also, how significant is the slowdown if I don’t use the number first in the permalink structure? Ideally I would love to display just:
domain.com/Blog-Name

Looks much nicer and easy for people for remember.

No it is not the same, when I go to network settings in my WP installation where it tells me to “Add the following to your .htaccess file” it looks like this:

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]

Besides two lines you mentioned that are different, “# uploaded files” code is different and there is also an additional line of code in the middle that is missing from the code provided to me by my WP installation.
I don’t know what it does or how significant it is, but I know when I copy-paste code form my WP install, I have issues.
But when I copy-paste code provided by @wpmuguru, everything works fine.

After a lot of searching, and a lot of comments from the forum here that “Your system is not reading the htaccess file”
I finally figured out what is wrong.
I came to realize that the system is reading the htaccess file correctly because I have another social program installed and it is using htaccess to create human legible URL without any problems. So I came to conclusion that the htaccess created by wordpress has issues.
After some search, I have found a different version of htaccess and it WORKS !!!!!
The example of that code can be found here:

Basically, it looks like this:

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]

Why is wordpress supplying a code that is not working? Use the one above which works fine.

WOW… finally after months of frustration I can get to work on my site.

And thinking back to the beginning of this post until now, a lot of mistrust (including mine) came from not knowing exactly what SPSN is, what it does and what it does NOT do.
So a clear explanation (Like in my earlier post) will help clear up a lot of questions and will help eliminate a lot of problems later on.
People tend to expect the worst from things they don’t understand.

Yes, that’s the issue.

Seems strange to me. Especially since the ads are only shown while editing that plugin settings only, not in the entire admin panel.

Since the plugin:
-Only shows ads while editing that plugin settings, not in the entire admin panel.

-Does not show any ads or links on my public site.

-Does not collect any personal information (As the privacy statement states)

Than I really don’t see what is the big problem here. And to tell you the truth, I don’t see a reason for people to opt-out.

I would suggest to have a clearer explanation about it while installing and maybe a statement in the plugin description page so people will know about it before downloading. And make sure to list things that SPSN does and does not do.

So on plugin description page have:
Since this plugin is free of charge, the developer is participating in SPSN network (Include link to SPSN) in order to help him offset costs of developing and updating the plugin.
*The SPSN network does:
-Only shows ads while editing that plugin settings, not in the entire admin panel.
*The SPSN network does NOT:
-Does not show any ads or links on public site.
-Does not collect any personal information

Good luck and thank you for providing great plugins.

Hold on, the whole issue is about displaying ads in the admin panel?
As long as this is not doing anything else besides showing ads in the admin panel (like showing ads or links on my site to the public) I don’t mind that.
As a matter of fact, I have clicked on the ad inside High Performance SEO to help you out.

Good Luck

Hey, on the page where you have “more accessible opt-out option” have a link to your paypal donation button.
Or even, when someone clicks on “opt-out” than open up another window with a massage: “While participation in SPSN is not required, I would greatly appreciate any amount donation since it takes time to write the plugin and takes time to provide updates to it. If you find this plugin useful please consider a donation” and give them option “Donate” or “not now”

If what GregMulhauser said is true:

As far as I am aware, we maintain a vastly higher standard of privacy protection and full disclosure than the example set by Automattic and www.ads-software.com itself — with the automatic plugin update mechanism responsible for the transmission and collection of vast amounts of information about individual WordPress installations without any disclosure about what information is being transmitted

I wonder why your plugin got singled out and Automattic is allowed to continue to do what they are doing?

Something stinks here, everyone needs to be treated equal, and I believe no plugin should be allowed to collect any information without full disclosure.

Developers, why is Automattic allowed to continue what they are doing?