Michael Gorman

Now it works. What the…?

I went in through the admin interface and edited each individual post, re-uploading the images through my web browser. When I SSH to the server and cd to the storage location, I now see two files:

/var/www/wp-content/blogs.dir/45/files/2011/10/goldilocks.jpg
/var/www/wp-content/blogs.dir/45/files/2011/10/goldilocks1.jpg

Both are owned by www-data:www-data and both have 644 permissions. But when I open my web browser and go to
http://blog-test.iwu.edu/admissions/files/2011/10/goldilocks.jpg
I see nothing; when I go to
http://blog-test.iwu.edu/admissions/files/2011/10/goldilocks1.jpg
I see an image.

Yeah; I saw that, too, but changing that to AllowOverride All didn’t fix the problem.

It seems like the faster way to go will be manually re-uploading the images. It’d be nice to have an algorithmic solution in case others in the future have a similar problem, but for me, today, that doesn’t seem very realistic since I need to get the whole thing up and running ASAP.

Thanks so much for your help, Ipstenu; even though we haven’t optimally solved the problem, it’s great that there are people like you who help people like me without really asking anything in return.

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf is empty and /etc/apache2/apache2.conf doesn’t have any AllowOverrides. The only relevant AllowOverrides I can find (which I believe are set correctly) are in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

	DocumentRoot /var/www
	<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride None
	</Directory>
	<Directory /var/www/>
Options FollowSymLinks Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride All
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>

	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
	<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
		AllowOverride None
		Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>

	ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

	# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
	# alert, emerg.
	LogLevel warn

	CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

I tried manually replacing an image that hadn’t been showing up, and it worked. Do you think it might be faster to do that than to keep trying to figure out why the automatic migration isn’t working for images?

Nope. I get a 200 with a content-type of image/jpeg and a content-length of 11506, but nothing shows up. (The content-length in the old site’s response is 33723.)

I believe so; it’s a direct copy-and-paste from the Network Setup instructions.