[support] Can't view uploaded files.

[Daniel Carrera]

The download method is not set to private.

Now, here is something really strange: It magically started working!

I don't think I did anything. I changed the URL of the site:

http://foo.com/test-site/ -> http://foo.com/drupal

But I wouldn't think that this would make the system suddenly decide to 
start working. Well, at least it works now. Thanks for the help.

Daniel.


Maarten van Grootel wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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