atharqureshi

Thank you @ipstenu and @jefferisp7.

I have resolved this problem by following the option 3 above. I find this the easiest way.

But to do that, you have to first remove the default following line under ‘#upload files’:
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

and then add the redirect, otherwise, the individual force-redirect will not work.

Let’s hope WP will bring an update that resolve this ill for all.

Regards.

should I also try to do the force redirect in my .htaccess file? Would that help at all?

@ipstenu, I have read the link https://halfelf.org/2012/dumping-ms-files/ but I am confused.

Having read the comments and suggestions in the end, I dont know what to do and where to start.

Any assistance will be very much appreciated.

@ipstenu, thanks for your reply. I am reading your link.

Please advise if there exist any other simple solution.

Update:

BROKEN image URL:
https://www.halalway.com.au/hcsa/files/2013/12/Fresh_Meat.png

WORKING image URL:
https://www.halalway.com.au/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2013/12/Fresh_Meat.png

Update:

My hosting provider says that it is not possible to set “AllowOverride” to “All” or “Options All” in the httpd.conf file, because I am under the shared hosting server :(.

No, actually the whole content can be exported to zip files (including all images) in Artistter and therefore are uploaded with the theme. My other client sites are working all good.

Regardless of the above, when I upload any image to media lib, it does show the uploading process but, no thumbnail and no image file, only an apparent blank thumbnail type box depicting the image is there.

I can use FTP to see the uploaded files in their actual address. The files are uploaded by default to this location (as said earlier):

/site.com.au/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files

Where 7 is the sub-site id number. Therefore, files are there, but when it comes to loading on pages, the path of the images are different. Its coming like the following:

https://www.site.com.au/hcsa/files/2013/12/Fresh_Meat.png

Any clue???

well, so far, I have only few images uploaded with the theme generator Artisteer. Uploaded the contents with the theme, didnt work.

Tried uploading single image files, doesn’t work either.

Researching on the forums, the htaccess file may need some tweaks.

Since my website is pretty new, and I have tried re-doing the whole thing again and again with no success, I guess I dont need to run the Super Cache do I?

WP stores them in the wp-content/blog.dir/(blog id) structure by default. You can get it from there.

you can then check their actual presence using any FTP client.

You can also get the address by simply right-click > inspect element in Chrome browser on that particular image.

@jefferisp7

Thanks for your reply. The images are uploading all good. In-fact, if I access them individually from their physical address, they open up and appear all good.

They are just not appearing in media library and on my site.

Any clue?