WordPress MU

Hi,

I moved 3 different wordpress installations to one single Wordpress MU.
Every thing except Permalinks are not working and images are not loading on the webpages.

Image URL style
http://subdomain.domain.com/files/2009/05/image.gif
Shows 404.
but if change i change it to

http://subdomain.domain.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/4/files/2009/05/image.gif

It works perfectly fine.

I tried everything found on this forum and other forums.
My .htaccess file has following content

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>

My mod_rewrite is active.
I am setting up this on an EC2 Instance.

I'm having the exact same issue on a new install of wordpressmu? Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this?

En mi caso sucede casi lo mismo pero con la forma http://dominio.com/usuario

hace como 2 semanas que intento encontrar la solución =(

¿alguna sugerencia?

Nota:
La instalación es nueva

I just fixed a similar problem ...

AllowOverride needed to be set to All (I think caps are important) in the Apache *.conf file for the specific website.

Apache2 ... Mac OSX Server 10.5.x Leopard

Here's my workaround :

I just put a soft link into the site using ssh (putty)

ln -s /path_to_site/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/ /path_to_site/

This creates a shortcut called files at the root of your site.
Be sure to put the path to your website files (replace path_to_site). In my case it was /home/www/ (could be /var/www/ for you...)

(This will work for a single WP setup... not so sure for WP_MU.. I'll check it out...on multiple users..)

This doesn't work at all on WordPress MU :(

However the answer above mine does work.

I changed the AllowOverride from None to All in the Site setting for apache...

Let me phrase it correctly :

Look here :

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default

You set up variables for virtual sites and you have settings : It starts with :

<Virtualhost *>
.../...
<Directory />
...
AllowOverride None (CHANGE THIS TO 'All' - CASE SENSITIVE)
...
</Virtualhost>

After having done this change to file, type this command :

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

This reloads Apache2 with the new settings & low & behold... url rewriting conditions in the .htaccess file of your WPMU setup is taken in account & everything works !

Hope this does help.
Regards & sorry for the mess above...

enzo24, thanks for the post!!! I've been scratching my head for days looking for a solution and this did the trick. Beauty!

Just a little more information on how this is done.

In Linux - am using a Redhat variation - you go to /etc/httpd/conf
You edit the httpd.conf file.
Locate AllowOverride None - change it to All
Save your file
Restart Apache

This worked for me.

I struggled with this issue for day's after I moved the site.

Try to pull up an image then check your error logs, the answer may be in there.

My issue was that the wp-content directory was group writeable.

I chaanged the permissions to 755 and it worked perfectly after that.