Title: Multisite image path error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multisite image path error

 *  Resolved [aizik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aizik/)
 * (@aizik)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/)
 * Hi
 * Upgraded from 2.9 to 3.0 b2. Everything seems to be working fine except that 
   newly uploaded images are not displayed.
 * The generated url for a new image is (what appears in the source code for a page):
   
   [http://site.com/files/2010/05/image.jpg](http://site.com/files/2010/05/image.jpg)
 * The image appears broken.
 * Opening the following address does works:
    [http://site.com/](http://site.com/)**
   wp-content**/files/2010/05/image.jpg
 * The images are uploaded to the correct directory the only problem is with the“/
   wp-content/” added to the url.
 * Any ideas? Thanks!
 * ps. I have to sites, both showing the same problem. The first one was converted,
   the second one is new. Also, I started with subdomains and then changed to subdirectories.
   To change to subdirectory I modified wp-config and htaccess.

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 *  [Anointed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anointed/)
 * (@anointed)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511103)
 * I have the same problem both on upgraded wpmu sites and virgin 3.0 multisite 
   setups.
 * Actually it should not be /wp-content/files/…
 * We are completely missing the /wp-content/blogs.dir/blogid/files path creation.
 * So all sub domain sites from upgrade are going to be broken image paths even 
   with the wp-content added in.
 * It’s like the entire directory process is screwed up when enabling multisite 
   in 3.0
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511145)
 * No, it **SHOULD** be /files 🙂
 * In your .htaccess, you should have this:
 *     ```
       # uploaded files
       RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
       ```
   
 * And that should redirect you just fine.
 * Check that your full .htaccess is something like this:
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       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).*) $2 [L]
       RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
       RewriteRule . index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 * (I’m using subfolders, not subdomains FYI)
 *  [Anointed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anointed/)
 * (@anointed)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511147)
 * [@ipstenu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
    Thanks, turns out I
   had the ‘generic’ htaccess file.
 * I guess that I am just used to running wpmu with the /blogs.dir/blogid/ system
   path.
 * With 3.0 now it seems that all the files are simply saved into the /wp-content/
   uploads folder, which seems really strange to me. Wondering how wp is going to
   separate out all the files for different sub domain sites without those folders.
   Suppose I’ll soon find out.
 * thanks again.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511149)
 * The files are saved to /wp-content/blogs.dir on my server for multisite. That
   said, all my OLD files, from before MSing, were back on /uploads/ so I had to
   do some fakery and SQL queries to move them. But. Most people are probably not
   going from ‘Massive established single site’ and into ‘multiple sites!’
 * Actually, having done it, I would tell people NOT to do it unless you have to.
   🙂
 *  [Anointed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anointed/)
 * (@anointed)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511186)
 * Unfortunately for me I do have a massive single-install wp (30k members, large
   amt of posts/media/forum posts) that is going to become a multisite 3.0 install
   when 3.0 goes final.
 * I also have a few wpmu sites that will become multisite3.0.
 * Finally I have a few new installs of 3.0 where I am playing around. I’ve noticed
   that as soon as I switch on multisite, that the folders are remaining the same.
   Even though I manually create the blogs.dir as specified, files still are saved
   in /files/
 * I’m just glad that I am doing very extensive testing in many situations prior
   to upgrading all my client and personal sites. So far it’s nowhere near as smooth
   as I’m sure wp plans it to be.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511223)
 * The MU to MS ones will be easy. I did that and they had no issues, no files, 
   etc.
 * > Finally I have a few new installs of 3.0 where I am playing around. I’ve noticed
   > that as soon as I switch on multisite, that the folders are remaining the same.
   > Even though I manually create the blogs.dir as specified, files still are saved
   > in /files/
 * Are the files **actually** saved in the /files/ directory, or is that just where
   the image URLs point to?
 * At a wild guess, if you create a single site, configure etc, use it and THEN 
   switch to multi, you may need to ‘fix’ the folders to blogs.dir.
 * Either way, on MS, your URL will always say ‘files’.
 * > Unfortunately for me I do have a massive single-install wp (30k members, large
   > amt of posts/media/forum posts) that is going to become a multisite 3.0 install
   > when 3.0 goes final.
 * It can be done, it’s just a pain. If you’re good with SQL and htaccess, it’s 
   no so bad. I had to move from a custom upload folder to blogs.dir, which involved
   a lot of copying files and then running SQL commands to fix posts after I ran
   the upgrade on the ‘main’ blog.
 * Then I imported the child blogs as import/export and ran the SQL fixes again 
   for that blog.
 *  Thread Starter [aizik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aizik/)
 * (@aizik)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511237)
 * My htaccess file seems fine, so my problem should be something else. Here is 
   my htaccess
 * > 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).*)
   > $2 [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L] RewriteRule . index.
   > php [L]
 * My guess is that it could be something in the site option. I was thinking that
   the upload path (although the files are being uploaded to the correct directory,
   just not displaying)
    My Upload Path is:/public_html/intranet/files/ (intranet
   is where wordpress is installed)
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511242)
 * Go into Network Settings -> Sites and click on EDIT for your blog.
 * The URL will be something like [http://domain.com/intranet/wp-admin/ms-sites.php?action=editblog&id=1](http://domain.com/intranet/wp-admin/ms-sites.php?action=editblog&id=1)
 * Scroll down to Upload Path and see what’s in there. It SHOULD be `wp-content/
   blogs.dir/1/files`
 * And that’s okay 🙂
 *  [Anointed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anointed/)
 * (@anointed)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511284)
 * value is: wp-content/uploads
 * I also can confirm that I do have mulsites=yes, and do have the option of adding
   sites.
 * Somewhere along the line during install, something must have gone terribly wrong.
 * Thankfully this is only my sandbox site, but at least it shows me that I need
   to try a fresh install again, prior to even thinking about moving ‘live’ sites
   to 3.0. I should make sure, triple check, that the data paths are now being setup
   correctly in 3.0 when switching to multi.
 * It’s just to bad that 3.0 does not give option during install for multi, where
   it could then make sure all file changes are made and directories are created
   properly before the db is even populated. Would have been much cleaner then.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511288)
 * Obviously you can change it manually, but. That’s beside the point!
 * If it happens a second time, I’d open up a trac ticket and detail exactly, down
   to the gnat’s backside, how you installed and what you did BEFORE switching to
   MultiSite.
 *  Thread Starter [aizik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aizik/)
 * (@aizik)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511290)
 * Changed the upload path to `wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files`
 * The files are uploaded to the right directory
 * Still do not display (actually they display ok in Chrome, the browser I used 
   to upload them, but not in any other browser).
 * `http://intranet.mayoreoelectrico.com/files/2010/05/mem_small.png` does not display
   `
   http://intranet.mayoreoelectrico.com/wp-content/files/2010/05/mem_small.png` 
   works
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511292)
 * Both links are 403 (Forbidden) for me.
 * Actually, so is [http://intranet.mayoreoelectrico.com/](http://intranet.mayoreoelectrico.com/)
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511302)
 * Re the email… His site’s blocked by IP, which makes sense since it’s internal
   only! 🙂
 * It really wouldn’t matter if I saw it or not. I was just wondering what the actual
   error messages were (sometimes looking at a blog helps click things).
 * Anyway. What plugins are you running? Is that the FULL .htaccess?
 * I’m not sure why it wouldn’t parse unless it can’t ‘see’ files, which is very
   odd. If I put /wp-content/ into my image URL, it redirects to /files/ so you’ve
   got to be missing something…
 *  Thread Starter [aizik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aizik/)
 * (@aizik)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511305)
 * Yes, the site is blocked by IP, I posted the link for reference only as an example…
 * Why could it be that the file path with wp-content is working but not without
   it?
 * I’ve gone through the htaccess and it seems ok, also the Upload Path site option
   and the files are uploading correctly.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-image-path-error/#post-1511306)
 * Is there anything else in the .htaccess that might be conflicting?

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