WordPress MU

I know this question has been posted 100 times but I am having trouble uploading files.

I am using wordpress mu 1.5.1 and have set my wp-content directory to have permissions 777 + have created an uploads folder under wp-content with permissions 777.

Using the ‘add media’ tool in the write post tab, when I upload a file I get no errors however the file doesn’t upload, I get all the information about the photo but no photo itself. Do I need to change any other permissions?

With wpmu there is no need to create any "upload" folders or set any paths/perms. Folders are created automagically in the blogs.dir/"blog_id" directory.

Ok part of my problem was that I was reading the documentation for single blog version of wordpress, however I am still having the same problem. The files are uploading properly. They get saved to - wp-content/blog.dir/blogs.dir/files/… but they're not appearing properly in the editor.

This suggests there is a problem with my .htaccess

This file looks line this

Any suggestions what I am doing wrong?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
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>

Thanks,
Levi

"They get saved to wp-content/blog.dir/blogs.dir/files/"

Is that a typo, or do you actually have wp-content/blog.dir/blogs.dir/files/?

It should be wp-content/blogs.dir/files/.

Sorry that was a typo,

Am example of the path actual file path is wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2008/06/thefile

However the path in the add media window and in the post is /files/2008/06/demo.jpg

I think there must be a problem with my uploaded files rewrite rules.

Additionally http://<blogURL>/files/2008/06/demo.jpg doesn’t link to the file.

any sugestions?

i faced the same problem with custom fields when it requires the image path
it only works when i type it as following http://doamin.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2008/06/thefile
the problem will be huge if you make it a single theme for all the users on the system which requires custom field "image" for example

Try a refresh or different permalink structure in options/settings->permalink.

You may need to apply this: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3173&page&replies=3#post-19388

I cannot even view the image detectably, if I view http://clubsdotcom.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2008/06/mu-header-logo.png the image still doesn’t display. However if I download the image via FTP it is ok????

It has me stumped.

leviputna:

I just recently updated to 1.5.1 and i was having the same problem, my htaccess file did not have this (from your post above)

#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

now, I can see the file, thanks

Wait, I can see the file, but for some reason not the thumbnail or medium file, possibly due to the hyphen?

thommeredith: did you end up getting your thumbnails working? My problem seems to be with the wp-content/blogs.php not construction the file properly.

all that is returned is a few nonsensical symbols. is there anyone that knows much about this file that can help me out. From what I understand this problem is caused by the file header information not being sent properly.

I got the thumbmnails to display in the media manager by moving the

'#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]'

code higher up in my .htacess file...

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

#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [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]

The path to the file still displays as http://mydomain.tld/files/yy/mm/image.jpg which will be a problem when users need to cut and paste the path to images for the template's custom fields...

The image does display in the post (so .htacess rewrite works).

I'll have to load up the exact same file name from a different blog to test it later :)

Does WPMU do the graphics rendering by itself or does it need some support on the host server?

Rendering? As in recompiling an image based on a change in some attribute such as resolution or dimension? A PHP image manipulation library such as imagemagik or GD would probably be invoked by the code author to do that kind of work.

Apache would serve up the image...based on path/permission information that it is fed from various sources (which is where the host server settings come into play).

Not sure what you mean :)

:-)

What I mean is since he can upload it but it doesn't show up that there may be a problem with server support for the graphics?

I dunno.

If he's using cPanel, sometimes, the 'prevent hotlinking of images' magic is too strong.