[support] Can't view uploaded files.

[Maarten van Grootel]

I would guess you have set "Download Method" on the settings page
'admin/settings/file-system'  to 'Private - files are transferred by
Drupal'. In that case, the described behavior occurs. Check this please, and
if it is the case, change the setting. Otherwise it might be a .htaccess
gone bad, as Drupal doesn't intervere with the file-system in that case.

--
Maarten

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When I try to view an image by pointing my browser to:
>
> http://server.com/drupal/files/ftp-uploads/foo.jpg
>
> I get a Drupal page that says "page not found". I think I know why this
> happens, but I don't know the solution. The Drupal "files" directory is
> divided into two sub-directories:
>
> uploads/
> ftp-uploads/
>
> Drupal uploads files to "files/uploads" and anything I upload through
> FTP I upload to ftp-uploads. I just like this organization. The files in
>  the first directory work fine. It is the ones in the second directory,
> the FTP one, that give the "page not found" error.
>
> MY THEORY:  Drupal must have a setting somewhere that tells it that any
> path that matches files/uploads/* shall be interpreted as a real file path.
>
> I need to find out where this setting is, and change it to "files/*".
> But I don't know where that setting is. Perhaps a htaccess file
>
> - I cannot prove the ftp uploads elsewhere. I am migrating to Drupal 5
> and the existing site already has dozens of links that would be broken
> if I moved the files.
>
> - I really really don't want to have Drupal put its files directly under
> 'files/'. I am moving to a new uploads module that creates a directory
> for every user. With a few thousand users, the "files/" directory would
> become impossible to navigate for me.
>
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Daniel.
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