Thumbnails in Media Library and Site Not Showing

Hi Ipstenu,

1) I read a lot of your posts so I figured you’d mention the .htaccess 😉 And mine is clean cut, exactly like this:

# 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

2) My httpd.conf is blank though. Can I assume it is because I use VirtualMin? Am I actually missing something in VirtualMin? In order to get the domain mapping to work, I added my domain 340mps.com as an alias of my primary domain victoor.com and that seemed to do the trick. But who knows?

3) Finally I read the link you provided me with. This left me a little quizzical:

To enable mod_rewrite to work within an Apache Virtual host you may need to set some options on the DocumentRoot.

So I dug out the apache2.conf and added this just in case:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /home/victoor/public_html
  <Directory /home/victoor/public_html>
    AllowOverride Fileinfo Options
  </Directory>

But for naught.

Thanks for your help,
Victor

Stupid question: Did you recycle the apache servvice after you did that?

I’ve restarted the server a few times since.

The general debugging is to check the following URLs:

http://www.340mps.com/files/image1.jpg
http://www.340mps.com/wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=/image1.jpg
http://www.340mps.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/#/files/image1.jpg (where # is the blog number)

Do any of those work?

They all do.

The image shows if you go to it directly, but NOT in the posts?

That’s correct. But it’s even crazier than that.

1. Nothing shows up in the Media Library.
2. Gallery uploads do not show up in the posts.
3. Single photo uploads added to a post show up.

I should mention that this is only true for uploads previous to the move. New uploads work just fine. I guess now that I am reading myself I should try a new gallery upload to see if this works. I’ll let you know more.

I have the feeling you are completely right. The permissions could be the problem.

In fact, after installing WordPress MU, the automatic plugin install with WordPress would not work. Following these instructions on why WordPress is asking for FTP connection info, I realized with this piece of code:

<?php echo(exec("whoami")); ?>

that apache2 was running as www-data. I promptly changed ownership of the whole public_html folder to www-data. The plugin could then be installed.

This however, meant that the admin for the WordPress install could not FTP into the server anymore. I ended up changing admin user to belong to www-data group and it did the trick.

All these settings are far from the original WordPress single site install where I did not have to do anything. On the original site:

• Apache2 runs as uxxxxxxxx
• File owner is 5xxxxxx
• Owner group is 6xx

Do you have any suggestions on how to entangle this mess?

Ownership is to www-data:www-data
Permissions are 664, same as the older files

I tried changing ownership of all the old files to www-data:www-data but the old photos are still not showing.

What am I missing here?

They are. Should they be?

I tried creating a user matching the user of the #2 blog and changing the permissions to this user. No dice.