Image Upload Issue on Sub-directory Sites

The main and subsites both have the same upload path, which is the same as my main site in question above. /home/xxxxx/public_html/wp-content/uploads

Well that isn’t right.

Upload path for subsitess should be /home/xxxxx/public_html/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/ OR wp-content/blogs.dir/4/files

The first one (uploads/sites/) is for all networks created on WP 3.4 or older. The second one (blogs.dir) is for any network started on 3.5 or later.

So for that your .htaccess should be this:

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress

I just want to doublecheck something…

SOME sites have upload paths of /wp-content/uploads/sites/#/…

OTHERS (or one other) has /wp-content/blogs.dir/4/files

Have you tried changing the theme on the site #4?

The sub site has one of ‘wp-content/blogs.dir/4/files’

That path is NOT WRONG in most cases.

How many sites on the broken network do you have? Is this site the ONLY subsite? I’m asking for a reason 🙂 This will help me understand where the thing broke!

My other Multisite installation which is being ran on a different server is being run on WP 3.7 also using the Vantage theme, and has upload paths of ‘/public_html/wp-content/uploads’ for both main and subsites (and works fine).

I betcha not. I bet that your subsites are ACTUALLY putting files in /public_html/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/

So to explain some history for you, if your multisite was activated on 3.0 through 3.4, the URLs for subsites would be wp-content/blogs.dir/#/files and the settings would reflect that exactly.

If your multisite was activated AFTER (so 3.5 and up), you get /public_html/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/ but the settings say /public_html/wp-content/uploads/

If you upgraded a multisite from 3.4 to 3.5, however, your urls were not magically changed.

All this means? Your server doesn’t understand this line:

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

You need to check the httpd.conf file and make sure that “AllowOverride” is set to “All” or “Options All”

GoDaddy? You are now the SECOND person who has had this problem with GoDaddy. Did you happen to use their one-click magic installer?

If there’s nothing to lose, I would start over and MANUALLY install WordPress.

I’m starting to think that GoDaddy’s auto-setup of MU is janking you guys badly 🙁 I’m tagging this for their support rep to look into.

Summary: When people are using the GoDaddy WPMU install, it’s causing their image upload directories to reflect the OLD directory structure for images instead of the new /wp-content/uploads one!