I have a reasonably fresh WordPress install on my Ubuntu Linux server and I uploaded an image to it for use in a blog post. I checked the path in WordPress settings and I checked the contents on the server:
$ ls -l /srv/www/wp-uploads/blog.linformatronics.nl/2013/01
total 320
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 22033 Jan 19 10:23 ccs5licence1-150x150.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 64195 Jan 19 10:23 ccs5licence1-300x214.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 22033 Jan 19 10:19 ccs5licence-150x150.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 71973 Jan 19 10:23 ccs5licence1.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 64195 Jan 19 10:19 ccs5licence-300x214.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data www-data 71973 Jan 19 10:19 ccs5licence.png
The files are actually uploaded through WordPress, so it has write access to the filesystem/directory.
But when I try to use it in a blog post it shows a broken image and when I point the webbrowser directly to the image it throws an error 404 page: https://blog.linformatronics.nl/wp-uploads/2013/01/ccs5licence1.png
From the settings => media page in WordPress:
Uploading Files
Store uploads in this folder /srv/www/wp-uploads/blog.linformatronics.nl
Full URL path to files http://blog.linformatronics.nl/wp-uploads
I’m fairly new to WordPress, so I still need to find my way around a bit.
I think the problem is that you are storing your images in
/srv/www/wp-uploads/blog.linformatronics.nl/2013/01but your link to the image is https://blog.linformatronics.nl/wp-uploads/2013/01/ccs5licence1.png.What you need to do is tell wordpress to store the images in
/srv/www/blog.linformatronics.nl/wp-uploads/2013/01.What your trying to do, it seems, is store images in
wp-uploads/blog.linformatronics.nlbut the folders should be swapped. It’s the website name and then the wp-uploads folder.Just ran into this problem and found that navigating to Settings > Media and then changing the Full URL path to files setting from
to
eg
http://blog.mysite.com/wp-uploads/blog.mysite.comYou are telling WordPress to store the images outside the path of your WordPress install. It is doing that but is then not able to access them.
If you specifiy a path within the WordPress install (the default is wordpress/wp-content/uploads/) WordPress will be able to find the stored images.
A reason for this behavior also could be, that, after moving your DB improperly, the auto increment (A_I) property is missing on your tables.