BuddyDrive Not Working?

I guess something went wrong during the activation of the plugin maybe…

When the plugin is activated it creates a folder “buddydrive” at the base dir of wp_uploads_dir() and creates an htaccess.

If i go there http://www.mysimcities.com/wp-content/uploads/buddydrive/mysimcitieslogo_login2.png i should have : access denied.. and i don’t.

So as you didn’t mention if you were in multisite, if you upgraded a prior version to WP 3.0 till 3.5.. Hard to know..

You can try to create manually the /wp-content/uploads/buddydrive/ folder ..

i doubt it solves the trouble, there might be a trouble with the rights of this folder, check if there are different than /wp-content/uploads/2013

No the url looks good, the download is done with php.

And if there wasn’t a problem with something i don’t catch on your config, then when trying to access this http://www.mysimcities.com/wp-content/uploads/buddydrive/mysimcitieslogo_login2.png we’d have an access denied

Have you checked the rights of the folder /uploads/buddydrive ? are they the same as /uploads/2013 ?

?? I don’t see any information about permissions (what i’ve called rights < sorry i’m franch).

Please have a look there http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
and then check that the permissions of the folder /uploads/buddydrive are the same as /uploads/2013. If not, try to apply the permissions of /uploads/2013 to /uploads/buddydrive (recursive way : folder + files included in the folder)

wow it’s a mystery !! the owner of the folders are the same ?

i’m sorry i’m stuck !

Try to temporarly rename the /uploads/buddydrive folder to 9999 and see if you can open it from a browser…

it won’t change anything 🙁 sorry. i guess there’s something in your config that avoids buddydrive folder to be reachable, an htaccess rule or something links with the owner / permissions (root/apache…) of the folder.

I’m not talking about this one, i’m talking about the one that is at the root dir of your web site. So don’t paste it here !!

Maybe you can do a dummy install on your computer using MAMP, WAMP or XAMPP and see if it’s working and analyze the root .htaccess file and the owner/permissions of the folder buddydrive compare to what’s on your website.

What i would do if i were you : i never work on a live server, i prefer to check on localhost before. So i would copy all your server config (all files and folders, all .htaccess files, and the complete database. Then i would create a vhost on my local computer and force the dns of my hosts file and then search what’s going wrong…