Seth Carstens

That seems to have fixed my problem. I have a multi domain custom configuration going so the root is not a good place for these files for me.

realized it does show up fine in IE meaning the bots probably pick it up fine.

Also realized it was being stored in the main directory, going to move it to that domains uploads directory and see if it works.

I tried with and without the WWW. The stylesheet error is the only things that’s displayed, so its not just “not pretty” but doesn’t work at all. Not to mention when you copy the XSL link into the browser it exists… not sure why its throwing an error on a file that exists.

https://samthedogtrainer.com/sitemap.xml

Ah yes, and I haven’t tested it on my subfolder install yet. I’ll make sure the next release has this fixed, hopefully released sometime this week with some other options I want to start on.

Thanks for the input.

oh I wanted to write about the cause of the issue that generated my hate for media library static GUID URL.

I am using wordpress MU, and in order to “move” websites that used to be in regular wordpress you must
1. create a subdomain ie. sethcarstens.smwpmu.com
2. you export your wordpress from the original site, in my case sethcarsten.com (pre MU).
3. You import this into the subdomain mu site
4. (unfortunately) you fix about 10 other things that go wrong with the conversion.
5. You point the A Record to the MU host.
6. change the primary URL of domain mapper from sethcarstens.smwpmu.com to sethcarstens.com
7. You change all the settings on the blog to remove sethcarstens.smwpmu.com and replace with sethcarstens.com.
8. You get hundreds of broken images since the GUID stores the old file url (ie sethcarstens.smwpmu.com/files/uploade.ext)

if the “File URL” from the media library was created dymanically, like its supposed to be useing the domain stored in the options tables, everything would be fine. Instead we have static information thats caused me a few hours of headache and worry.

Phew, glad I got that off my chest.

Members of this post. I completely agree with the original post person. I actually came to this forum thread to post my own complaint to find ITS ALREADY HERE!

MFields is ask “why wouldn’t the relative link work for you?” That doesn’t make sense to me. Its storing “https://domiain.com/location/of/file/name.ext” in the GUID of the media library. Why would you want that to be static?

Ipstenu, yes WPMU rewrites the location of the file to help keep your actual file location private and secure, but this has nothing to do with the URL its using to link to this file in the HTML Source.

Plain and simple, question “Why in gods name is the source URL of file attachments stored in the GUID?” We already ALSO store this exact same information in the _meta table. For some reason everything else on the site uses %site_url%/%meta_info% to create HTML. Why has this not been implimented on the media library, and better yet, why IF THIS IS STORED in the GUID field, can we not modify this information from the “media library -> edit file” page where we modify everything else… for some reason they have it blocked.

I was forced first to manually change the database from phpmyadmin, then found “search and replace” plugin that fixed a majority of my problems. Thankfully, all my problems as they related to the Media Library.

Lol, nevermind, that was fast.

I now realize they were hiding in the posts table. I assumed since its meta data, it would be saved as meta data…

For some reason unknown to me, they are storing the media library path in the wp_post table. Associated with the “attachment.php” theme page. Why store meta data in a post file? Who knows, but I’m glad I finally found it so I can fix my site.

Also unknown to me is why they do not allow you to edit this information from the media library -> edit image page. And lastly, what is the purpose of storing this link when all the media library file URL’s are already stored as meta data… ugh wordpress sometimes you frustrate me.

Ok, I’ve looked for almost an hour. I can’t find anywhere how exactly wordpress is calculating the Media Library -> Edit Media -> File URL.

I’m trying to move from a subdomain WPMU site to a “domain mapped” site. In this process all my FILE UPLOAD url’s are not changing to the new URL style.

Before: sethcarstens.smwpmu.com
After: sethcarstens.com

Everything else moves and changes per my changes to the options table. For the life of me though, I can’t get the File URL of my Media Library to change. I’ve even gone as far to do a MySQL database lookup for “smwpmu.com” which it no longer finds. I also already found out the the meta data it stores for the uploads does not include the URL so its just “/blog.dir/18/linkedin.gif” or something similar.

I parsed through the wordpress codex only to find that the page on “atttachment_url” method is empty…

WordPress guru’s unite! Help me find out how wordpress is putting together this File URL for the Media Library.

you may want to link to the webgyrl post, as I’m seeking a solution to the problem that I can’t find where its storing the FILE URL for media in the database.

Oh and you can see it working nicely at https://sethcarstens.com/

Its used to embed the google voice object that wordpress MU kept removing from my code upon publication.

Oh you requested
URL Used: https://sm-wordpress.com/
Tweet Blender: 3.0.4
Wordpress: 2.9.1
Browser: All (chrome, ie, ff)
OS: win7

Ryan, If you read his post, you will see he is “self hosting” on his own server.

I installed XAMPP and am using mercury mail as my SMTP mail server

Bradaz I’m not sure why you included information about SMTP through mercury. If its a linux box sendmail should included as part of your OS with PHP 4/5 loaded. Once you tell us your Operating System, we can help your further.

windows or linux server? if xampp on windows, I’ve had many problems with it, I suggest moving to free linux distro.