Title: major path problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# major path problems
* [vick_818](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vick_818/)
* (@vick_818)
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/)
* All the media on my site all of a sudden broke, can someone please help me resolve
this issue. I have a feeling it has to do with .htaccess.
* When I upload media it gets stored here:
domain.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/
2010/07/IMG_5400m-1.jpg
* then when I load the site it tries to load the media from:
domain.com/files/
2010/07/IMG_5400m-1.jpg
* this leads to a 404 error. Why is this happening and how is it resolved?
* thanks
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* Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
* (@ipstenu)
* 🏳️🌈 Advisor and Activist
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571571)
* You’re probably right. What’s in your .htaccess for WordPress?
* [webplacing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webplacing/)
* (@webplacing)
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571573)
* I have the exact same problem, my htaccess is below:
RewriteEngine On RewriteBase/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
* # uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.
php?file=$2 [L]
* # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$
$1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
* RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule
^ – [L] RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L] RewriteRule . index.php [L]
* Thanks in advance
* Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
* (@ipstenu)
* 🏳️🌈 Advisor and Activist
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571577)
* webplacing, your .htaccess looks fine.
* 1) Are you using a Unix based server or a Windows based server?
2) Is there
a files folder on your server? (DO NOT create one! I’m just ASKING if there is
one!) 3) Do pretty permalinks work on your site?
* You may need to get this added to your httpd.conf file:
* ```
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
```
* [webplacing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webplacing/)
* (@webplacing)
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571581)
* Thanks for your help.
1. Yes this is Unix based 2. No there isnt 3. Havent tried,
should i?
* An example:
This is where an image is: [http://ssc.webplacing.co.uk/wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files/2010/07/DSCF0400_solid_oak.jpg](http://ssc.webplacing.co.uk/wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files/2010/07/DSCF0400_solid_oak.jpg)
But WordPress looks here: [http://ssc.webplacing.co.uk/files/2010/07/DSCF0400_solid_oak.jpg](http://ssc.webplacing.co.uk/files/2010/07/DSCF0400_solid_oak.jpg)
* I’ll do the http.conf edit now and report back,
* Thanks
* [webplacing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webplacing/)
* (@webplacing)
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571583)
* Added to http.conf but it didnt work.
I noted that in the dashboard if i upload
an image the image does not show as a thumbnail in the media section or if i
click edit media, but then if i click edit image then on the next page i can
see the image, this appears to be the only place that it works.
* Thanks again.
* Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
* (@ipstenu)
* 🏳️🌈 Advisor and Activist
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571584)
* Yeah, turn on pretty permalinks 🙂
* For what it’s work, where WP is looking _is correct_. It’s supposed to look in/
files/ and then be sneaky and translate that to blogs.dir
* [webplacing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webplacing/)
* (@webplacing)
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571593)
* Sorry for being really dumb, what are the steps i need to take to turn on pretty
permalinks. I went to settings>permalinks> and clicked month and name but now
none of the pages work on the website, have I missed something out here?
* Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
* (@ipstenu)
* 🏳️🌈 Advisor and Activist
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571598)
* No, you did it right. Turn ’em off. Your server’s not set up to use pretty permalinks
some how.
* Check [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
and see if your server supports mod_rewrite.
* Thread Starter [vick_818](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vick_818/)
* (@vick_818)
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571602)
* rewrites works on my server, I am able to use pretty permalinks. Any resolution
on this issue? Please
* [webplacing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webplacing/)
* (@webplacing)
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571607)
* Thanks so much for all your help ipstenu
I hadn’t restarted apache after adding
the link to httpd.conf
* It all works fine now, thanks!
* Thread Starter [vick_818](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vick_818/)
* (@vick_818)
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571651)
* this is whats in my htaccess ipstenu, sorry I was not able to get to it earlier:
*
RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.
php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-
d RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
* Can someone that uses WPMU 2.9.2 paste me their htaccess content, I want to make
a comparison..thanks!
* [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
* (@andrea_r)
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571696)
* That’s the single WP htaccess.
* If you’re looking for wpmu 2.9.2, it’s here:
[http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/htaccess.dist](http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/htaccess.dist)
* Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
* (@ipstenu)
* 🏳️🌈 Advisor and Activist
* [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571776)
* And if you’re using WP 3.0 with Multisite, it’s this one:
* ```
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress
```
* 🙂 Covering all bases.
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* Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
* Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-path-problems/#post-1571776)
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