Hiya,
I’m not fully understanding what the issue here is I’m afraid – could you clarify exactly what your .htaccess does and how EM is intefering?
Thanks!
Phil
Hello Philipjohn,
I should have started with the beginning.
I am managing a WP Multisite platform in my company, and my platform is currently protected with a custom authentication (based on FEDID and simplesamlphp). But with this kind of authentication, my images are still accessible if the user uses the full path to the file (wp-content/blogs.dir/blogid/files…). So in order to counteract this, I added a .htaccess/.htpasswd to the blogs.dir folder.
So basically, when the plugin is not active, all is fine. But when I activate it, it seems that the image that I uploaded on my blog are being called with their full path – so I get my login pop-up window when charging the page.
Any idea why ?
Just to clarify: when you upload images via Events Manager the login windows appears?
Does this happen when you upload images using the standard WordPress post interface?
No, not when I upload image, but when I charge the page !
The images are already uploaded. I am not trying to upload one, only to visit my blog.
Got you.
Do you have the same problem when viewing pages / posts that have images that have been uploaded with the normal Edit Post / Page options?
Sounds like you’d need to change where uploaded images are saved, so that they’re stored outside of the folder protected by the .htaccess file.
Hello,
Sorry for the delay, I was away for the month.
The problem is not related to the .htaccess files or the directory I’m saving my images in (it’s the default one under wp-content/blogs.dir/idblog/files…) but the way the plugin changes the path when activated.
On one blog, where Events manager is not activated, the media info displays the file URL as follow
http://blog.domain.com/myblog/files/2013/09/banner1-FR.jpg
and on the blog where Events manager is activated
http://blog.domain.com/myblog/wp-content/blogs.dir/33/files/2013/09/banner1-FR.jpg
So it appears your plugin changes the way media files are called in WordPress.
Could you please tell me how to fix it ? Or is there a workaround ?
Thanks you
Can you elaborate on exactly where EM is calling http://blog.domain.com/myblog/wp-content/blogs.dir/33/files/2013/09/banner1-FR.jpg please?
It feels like we’ve not got a full picture. Rather than explain your setup, can you go through, step-by-step, how to get to the issue on your site?
Thanks
Hello philipjohn,
OK let’s take this from the beginning.
When I activated the plugin Events Manager, all the images on my blog couldn’t be displayed because they weren’t being loaded with this type of path http://blog.domain.com/myblog/files/2013/09/banner1-FR.jpg but instead with this one http://blog.domain.com/myblog/wp-content/blogs.dir/33/files/2013/09/banner1-FR.jpg.
Normally, this wouldn’t have been a problem, but since I added a .htaccess on my blogs.dir folder to restrict its access, images couldn’t be displayed.
I checked on the Chrome console, and I can see the difference in the path between a blog where EM is activated, and another one where it’s not.
I know this is not a issue for most of the users, since they don’t have the protection on the blogs.dir folder, but could you tell me where to change this ? I had a look at pretty much all the scripts in your plugin, but without any chance.
Thanks for helping me 🙂
So simply, the issue arises whenever I am trying to load a page on my blog where there is a picture.
I think the only solution here would be to edit your htacess file to deny all requests except those coming from the domains you specify.
Addind my domain wouldn’t solve my problem, since the requests come from this domain.
I am sure there is somewhere in EM scripts a line where the media URL is set with the “wrong” function..
how about trying to upgrade to EM 5.5.2 and see if this resolves the issue?
I updated the plugin, without any luck…
Hiya,
I’ve tried this myself on a clean WP Multisite and I do not get any difference in the paths to images.
Are you sure there are no other plugins, or your theme, that is interfering?
Thanks
