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1. erikajurney
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have a main site: tryhandmade.com
   And a sub-site: gallery.tryhandmade.com

   tryhandmade has been around for a while and I recently converted it to be the main site of a multisite network.

   The gallery site used to be a standalone, but I'm (trying to) bring it under the main umbrella. I've imported all the posts, but all the image files are getting 403 forbidden errors. I'm thinking that this is a problem with my htaccess file? Or gremlins? Here's the very first part of my htaccess:

   # BEGIN WordPress
   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]
   # END WordPress

   The rest of htaccess is all the stuff needed for W3 total cache.

   Here's an example of a file which gets a 403:
   http://gallery.tryhandmade.com/files/2010/09/CIMG32943.jpg

   This is where it should go, but doesn't:
   http://gallery.tryhandmade.com/wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=/2010/09/CIMG32943.jpg

   I hope I haven't left out any important details... Anyone have any brilliant ideas? I'm all out.

   Thanks very much,
   Erika

2. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi erica! ;)

   The images should physically be at:

   http://gallery.tryhandmade.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/2010/09/CIMG32943.jpg

   ipstenu had some fun doing this but lucky for us, wrote it all down. Now if only *I* had saved that link in my handy file...

3. erikajurney
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hey Andrea - I was hoping you'd stop by!

   The image really is here:
   http://gallery.tryhandmade.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/10/files/2010/09/CIMG32943.jpg
   (blog ID is 10)

   If you find the notes, I'd love to know the solution - it is driving me crazy!

   Thanks,
   Erika

4. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   "Forbidden

   You don't have permission to access /files/2010/09/CIMG32943.jpg on this server.

   Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

   Is what I get when trying to access the URL of what it *should* be.

   (the notes I was looking for were here, btw http://code.ipstenu.org/moving-your-images-for-multisite/)

   So, in this case it looks like the rewrite rules are actually... rewriting.. for some reason.

   And the blog permalinks are fine? I know you're in maintenance mode...

5. Andrea_r
   team pirate
   Posted 1 year ago #

   And the part where you;re getting http://gallery.tryhandmade.com/wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=/2010/09/CIMG32943.jpg means it;s doing it internally on the wordpress end, but the htaccess part is failing.

6. erikajurney
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   (I took it out of maintenance and the problem is still there.)

   Is there some setting on my end that could be not allowing rewrites in htaccess?

7. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Turn off the cache plugin for a test? W3 total cache should be turned on per site, btw, not as network , iirc.

8. erikajurney
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hmm, cache off, still no joy...

9. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Bugger. Worked for someone else!

   You cleaned out the htaccess to just the standard stuff when you turned off the plugin?

10. erikajurney
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Whoops, I hadn't taken the cache stuff out of htaccess, but I just did that (and restarted apache just for a little je ne sais quoi) but still 403...

11. Ipstenu
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Grr! There's no reason for that error. There isn't a files folder created there, right? And no hotlink protection anywhere on the server?

12. erikajurney
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    There *is* a files folder and it has all my uploads in it.

    .../tryhandmade/wp-content/blogs.dir/10/files/2010/09/...

    No hotlink protection, though.

13. Ipstenu
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Right, but not ../tryhandmade/files :)

14. erikajurney
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    YOU FIXED IT!

    No freaking idea why there was a tryhandmade/files, but it was there (with a date from 3 months ago, so who knows why).

    So glad this was a stupid mistake on my part and not some sort of inscrutable problem with my hosting or something...

    Thank you so much!
    Erika

15. Ipstenu
    Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Wow... That was a total shot in the dark. Huzzah!

16. Andrea_r
    team pirate
    Posted 1 year ago #

    High fives! :D

    (i went to bed, sorry)

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