Title: Multisite uploads
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multisite uploads

 *  [robcwright](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robcwright/)
 * (@robcwright)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-uploads/)
 * I’ve been fighting with 3.04 Multisite and now 3.1 RC2 trying to get uploads 
   to behave the way I think they should. I’m trying to get the files that are uploaded
   to the main blog to register in the media library with an upload location of /
   files/year/month/name, but it will not work.
 * By default, blog ID 1 uses the standard wp-content/uploads folder as its default
   upload location. Once enabling multisite, the new sites use wp-content/blogs.
   dir/siteID/files/etc. When an image is uploaded to a child site, the listed location
   is /files/year/month/name, not blogs.dir. Hence the need for the htaccess rule
   to rewrite it to ms-files to figure out where it belongs.
 * I’ve tried hard coding /blogs.dir/1/files into the network admin for my main 
   site. WP will upload to that direct and display it externally with no problems,
   but it still shows up in the media library with the /blogs.dir address and not
   under files. I want the media library and the posts to show the /files/ url and
   not the /blogs.dir/ url, but I can’t quite figure it out.
 * I have another install that this is working perfect on and I can’t figure out
   the difference other than the old site that is working as it should cam from 
   WPMU and was upgraded to WP 3.
 * Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

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## Tags

 * [blogs.dir](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blogs-dir/)
 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)

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 * Last reply from: [robcwright](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robcwright/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-uploads/)
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