Version 3 upgrade – “wp-content/blogs.php is depricated……” Help

I’m migrating from MU 2.9.2 to WP 3.0 getting the error

The wp-content/blogs.php file is deprecated. Please remove it and update your server rewrite rules to use wp-includes/ms-files.php instead

and I’m not quite sure where to even put this change at. Which file am I adding/changing or what?

I’m a complete moron on this but how would I find out if I was running Apache? A friend hosts my blogs on his server but I have no way of asking him at the moment.

Hi, I upgraded from WPMU 2.9.2 to WP 3, all went fine (with great relief) I went and changed the

#uploaded files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

to

#uploaded files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

but I still have the message at the top of the admin

So here is my full .htaccess (minus the site name) – I am wondering if I have stuff in there that I do not need – hope someone can help me, thanks

suPHP_ConfigPath /home/sitename/public_html

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*1b89f55297a947d7973f3b06bbcd6fd4.*$
RewriteRule ^wp-comments-post.php - [F,L]

# as you're using WordPress MU, copy these lines into your .htaccess file, making sure the paths match the location of the signup form.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*1b89f55297a947d7973f3b06bbcd6fd4.*$
RewriteRule ^wp-signup.php - [F,L]

#uploaded files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . - [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>

#If you're feeling adventerous, you can add the following two lines before the regular WordPress mod_rewrite rules in your .htaccess file. They will stop comments from spambots before they reach the database or are executed in PHP:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*1b89f55297a947d7973f3b06bbcd6fd4.*$
RewriteRule ^wp-comments-post.php - [F,L]

#As you're using WordPress MU, copy these lines into your .htaccess file, making sure the paths match the location of the signup form.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*1b89f55297a947d7973f3b06bbcd6fd4.*$
RewriteRule ^wp-signup.php - [F,L]

# BEGIN W3 Total Cache
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
    SetEnvIfNoCase Host ^(www\.)?([a-z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-z]+)\.?(:[0-9]+)?$ DOMAIN=$2
    SetEnvIfNoCase Accept-Encoding (gzip) APPEND_EXT=.$1
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/$
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\/wp-admin\/|\/xmlrpc.php|\/wp-(app|cron|login|register).php|wp-.*\.php|index\.php) [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (wp-comments-popup\.php|wp-links-opml\.php|wp-locations\.php) [NC]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =""
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(comment_author|wp-postpass|wordpress_\[a-f0-9\]\+|wordpress_logged_in) [NC]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(bot|ia_archive|slurp|crawl|spider) [NC]
    RewriteCond /home/sitename/public_html/wp-content/w3tc-%{ENV:DOMAIN}/pgcache/$1/_default_.html%{ENV:APPEND_EXT} -f
    RewriteRule (.*) wp-content/w3tc-%{ENV:DOMAIN}/pgcache/$1/_default_.html%{ENV:APPEND_EXT} [L]
</IfModule>
# END W3 Total Cache

Thanks Ipstenu
I have been using WPMU for many versions, I am not sure how many.

I did make the change you posted, everything still works but the message is still there.

So I am still after a fix if anyone has one.

Hi Ipstenu
I replaced the .htaccess with the one you provided and the message is still at the top of all my admin pages.

Another thing that I feel is related is that I can not login to any of my other hosted sites as admin via the admin ie. Superadmin/sites/backend

I can get into the Superadmin/sites/edit

The path to the edit is working but not for backend for each of my sites.

The link to the backend points to wp-admin for all my sites

Any ideas?

Thanks hamzahali
I thought I had done that, … and now I have the message has gone.

Only one thing more and thats the path to the backend via the admin.
I guess we can close this and I will ope a new post.

Thanks to all for your help

Hello one and all, am happy to announce that I found a solution to my admin login problem that happened after I installed wordpress 3.0. The admin login problem is supposed to be a simple problem if you are used to wordpress. Without much ado, to fix admin password problem after installation of wordpress 3.0 Follow below steps:

Two things may happen, 1. if you are not used to such problem you may click on lost your password? link and you did not receive the new password. 2. You may receive the new password.
But if your case is similar to mine just follow below steps

Step 1. Just clear your browser cookies. This step is sure to work if you had not clicked on lost your password link.

Step 2. Log into cpanel and click on phpmyadmin. Locate and click on wp_user, and then browse. On the user_pass field, click “browse” and find the ID number associated with your login (there is usually only one) and click Edit.

Select the password content and delete it. Type in your new password as you normally would.

# In the dropdown menu, choose MD5.

# Click Go or Save at the bottom of the screen.

# Return to the tab for your WordPress blog and test the new password. If it doesn’t work, start over.

Viola