Uploaded images problem after 2.8.1 upgrade

Sounds a little odd - there are some bugs with 2.8.1 but I didn't know that this was one.

Another post (blogs.dir images not appearing and article links 404) seems to address a similar problem, so I checked my .htaccess file, which seems fine - didn't change since upgrading to 2.8.1.

As mentioned before, images that are uploaded are landing in the correct directories (wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files,/2/files, /3/files, etc.) but when the system tries to call them via the path sub1.mydomain.com/files/2009/07/myimage.jpg - nothing.

The htaccess file does contain the following line, which seems to deal with paths for uploaded images:

<br />
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]<br />

I don't know enough about how the htaccess file works with WPMU to determine if there is a change needed here, but it appears it might be a place to start.

Attached is a screenshot from the Media Library admin panel that shows how images are just not displaying.

When I view source, the code shows that it is rendering the IMG tag...

<table class="slidetoggle describe form-table"><br />
		<thead class="media-item-info"></p>
<p>		<tr><br />
			<td class="A1B1" rowspan="4"><img class="thumbnail" src="http://test.airfoil.net/files/2009/05/testimage.jpg" alt=""></td><br />
			<td>testimage.jpg</td><br />
		</tr><br />
		<tr><td>image/jpeg</td></tr><br />
		<tr><td>2009-06-08 10:14:57</td></tr><br />
		<tr><td></td></tr></p>
<p>		</thead>

...but the image doesn't display. If I type the path directly into a browser, I get a 404.

So, it seems that WPMU is no longer translating "http://test.airfoil.net/files/" to the directory "blogs.dir/1/files" - resulting in it not finding the image.

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@airfoil ...If I may ask, did you resolve this problem? I'm having the same problem, except intsead of a 404, I just get an empty image placeholder in IE. Thanks

Hiya,

Make sure your .htaccess file is intact. Also check the permissions on blogs.dir.

Thanks,
Andrew

Hiya,

You need to change this line:

RewriteBase BASE/

To this:

RewriteBase /

Thanks,
Andrew

to follow up - I had to do a complete re-install and new DB creation - all images show now

EXCEPT only to logged in users - hmmmmm

Hey,

Im also getting the same problem (Images I upload via the media library in WPMU (2.9.2 with buddypress) are only visible when users are logged in)

Here is a link to a post with an image on it:
http://www2.gamesphere.com.br/2010/07/23/novos-ladders-fifa10-pc-xbox360-ps3/

When logged in the image src is: http://www2.gamesphere.com.br/files/2010/07/fifa10-150x150.jpg
When not logged in src is: http://www2.gamesphere.com.br/4/2010/07/fifa10-150x150.jpg

The relative info in my .htaccess looks like this:
`RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?avatar/(.*) wp-content/avatar.php?file=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?sitemap.xml wp-content/sitemap.php [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
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]`

My WPMU is installed in a subfolder (public_html/v5/wp/)

I read other topics on this issue but dont know how to fix it:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12044
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/16694

Everything else works fine.
Any tips on how to fix this would be great, thanks.

Has anyone ever figured this problem out? If you check the wordpress.org forum, you can see dozens of people are now having this issue with images on both upgrades and fresh installs of 3.0 and 3.0.1.

Well in Johny's case, the issue is probably because wpmu is installed in a subdirectory. Lost count how many times we told people in the wpmu forums that they would have problems if they did that. It needs to be in root. That would be my guess.