The specified file does not exist

I’m seeing the same problem. I installed the plugin and uploaded some files. I’m able to generate shortcodes when I edit a page but every file I’ve tried gives me the same error when I try to download it.

File does not exist!

I get these errors in my httpd-error.log file.

[Sat Apr 13 21:17:23.288309 2013] [:error] [pid 15168] [client 192.168.42.29:527
37] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: root in /usr/local/www/apache24/data/wp-con
tent/plugins/delightful-downloads/includes/js/jqueryFileTree/connectors/jqueryFi
leTree.php on line 21, referer: https://rhea/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=ded
o_download
[Sat Apr 13 21:17:23.288346 2013] [:error] [pid 15168] [client 192.168.42.29:527
37] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: root in /usr/local/www/apache24/data/wp-con
tent/plugins/delightful-downloads/includes/js/jqueryFileTree/connectors/jqueryFi
leTree.php on line 22, referer: https://rhea/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=ded
o_download
[Sat Apr 13 21:17:23.288402 2013] [:error] [pid 15168] [client 192.168.42.29:527
37] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: root in /usr/local/www/apache24/data/wp-con
tent/plugins/delightful-downloads/includes/js/jqueryFileTree/connectors/jqueryFi
leTree.php on line 28, referer: https://rhea/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=ded
o_download
[Sat Apr 13 21:17:23.288423 2013] [:error] [pid 15168] [client 192.168.42.29:527
37] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: root in /usr/local/www/apache24/data/wp-con
tent/plugins/delightful-downloads/includes/js/jqueryFileTree/connectors/jqueryFi
/var/log/httpd-error.log: unmodified: line 1

Three weeks later, and the problem still exists – uploading files works nice, they actually also get listed in the plugins “All Downloads” list, and including shortcodes also renders the buttons on the page correctly, but right after the file has uploaded you get a red warning box at the top “File does not exist” – and the links of the buttons simply send you to a rather bland error page.

This needs some rather urgent fixing. What else can I do to figure out what goes wrong here?

I found a way to get rid of the dreaded ‘File does not exist’ error, but I had to manually edit the WordPress database to do it.

In the postmeta table, each download target has a row with a value of _dedo_file_url in the meta_key column. I changed https:// to http:// in the meta_value column. As soon as I did that, I could download the corresponding file from my website.

The only reason I could think of that https got stuck into the meta_value column is that I force WordPress to use ssl for all admin pages.

Hi guys – I’m having the exact same problem when running Delightful Downloads on my dev subdomain. I tried following the steps taken above to 1)search my DB to see if the issue is there and 2)Update the code in functions.php as Ryan did to change the document root.

Findings: My DB lists the correct path: http://dev.mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/delightful-downloads/2013/10/filename.pdf

Updating the code to $_SERVER['REAL_DOCUMENT_ROOT'] has no effect.

Do I need to uninstall the plugin and reinstall for that change to take place?

Instead of $_SERVER[‘REAL_DOCUMENT_ROOT’], should it be $_SERVER[‘/dev/’]?

I have the last version and still have the same error ! please help

Hi Have this issue too (April 7th 2014) ?

any fix ?