Title: Multisite Upload path issues
Last modified: February 12, 2024

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# Multisite Upload path issues

 *  [inge12](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inge12/)
 * (@inge12)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-upload-path-issues/)
 * I had more or less abandoned a subsite of ssnet.org (subdirectory-type install)
   after not being able to solve the problem of missing images a couple years ago
   after a major WordPress update. (WP 5.8?? or maybe it was a server update.)
 * My main site works fine with these settings:
   upload_path /home/ssnet/public_html/
   wp-content/uploadsupload_url_path [blank]fileupload_url [https://ssnet.org/public_html/wp-content/uploads](https://ssnet.org/public_html/wp-content/uploads)
 * I believe my upload paths for the sabbathissues.org subsite looked like this (
   lots of changing back and forth since then):
   upload_path: [https://ssnet.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/12/files](https://ssnet.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/12/files)
   upload_url_path [blank]fileupload_url [https://sabbathissues.org/files](https://sabbathissues.org/files)
 * Upon moving to a new server, a tech support person went beyond the call of duty
   to apply a “band-aid” solution to make most of the images on the site show up.
   With a little sleuthing I found that he had inserted a directory redirect in 
   the root directory (public_html). He redirected the address [https://ssnet.org/files](https://ssnet.org/files)
   to [https://ssnet.org/sabbathissues](https://ssnet.org/sabbathissues). And the
   images started showing up.
 * It so happens that I had reproduced the upload directory in the [https://ssnet.org/sabbathissues](https://ssnet.org/sabbathissues)
   as one of my desperate attempts to restore the images.
 * My current settings in the Networking Admin Sites setup look like this:
   upload_path/
   home/ssnet/public_html/sabbathissues/files/upload_url_path [https://sabbathissues.org/files/](https://sabbathissues.org/files/)
   fileupload_url [https://sabbathissues.org/files/](https://sabbathissues.org/files/)
 * This works only after a fashion, because this is what happens:
   When I upload 
   an image it goes to [https://ssnet.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/12/files/2024/02](https://ssnet.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/12/files/2024/02)
   and the images do not show up in the Media Library unless I choose “Edit.” And
   they do not show up when I attempt to insert them into blog posts. I have to 
   use FTP to move them to [https://sabbathissues.org/files/2024/02](https://sabbathissues.org/files/2024/02),
   and then the images work as expected.
 * I tried removing the redirect, and the images immediately disappeared from the
   site. The only thing I did not try was to put the images in the directory that
   was redirected, namely [https://ssnet.org/files](https://sabbathissues.org/files/).(
   Currently there is no such directory.)
 * I would like to get rid of the redirect, and I would like to be able to upload
   files and have them work without having to move them via FTP. ([https://ssnet.org/sabbathissues](https://ssnet.org/sabbathissues)
   is perfect as a file repository, as far as I’m concerned.) Perhaps there is something
   wrong in the Sites setup that you can see, but it doesn’t look to me like WordPress
   is paying much attention to the file paths.
 * (My previous post on this issue was [Subsite images do not load after Update to WP5.8 or subsequent updates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subsite-images-do-not-load-after-update-to-wp5-8-or-subsequent-updates/),
   but I believe my current questions are sufficiently different to warrant a different
   post, since I’ve done enough sleuthing to understand a little of what’s going
   on. Besides, the other post was kind of abandoned … )
 * I would really appreciate some help on this. (I also have another small subsite
   with a similar problem. I believe if we can get the one site to work correctly,
   I can make the other site work too.) Thanks in advance!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmultisite-upload-path-issues%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
 * [Sub-directory](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sub-directory/)
 * [sub-folder](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sub-folder/)
 * [subsite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subsite/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [inge12](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inge12/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-upload-path-issues/)
 * Status: not resolved

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