<div dir="ltr">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. <br>
<br>--<br>Maarten<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Daniel Carrera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.carrera@zmsl.com">daniel.carrera@zmsl.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br>
<br>
When I try to view an image by pointing my browser to:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://server.com/drupal/files/ftp-uploads/foo.jpg" target="_blank">http://server.com/drupal/files/ftp-uploads/foo.jpg</a><br>
<br>
I get a Drupal page that says "page not found". I think I know why this<br>
happens, but I don't know the solution. The Drupal "files" directory is<br>
divided into two sub-directories:<br>
<br>
uploads/<br>
ftp-uploads/<br>
<br>
Drupal uploads files to "files/uploads" and anything I upload through<br>
FTP I upload to ftp-uploads. I just like this organization. The files in<br>
the first directory work fine. It is the ones in the second directory,<br>
the FTP one, that give the "page not found" error.<br>
<br>
MY THEORY: Drupal must have a setting somewhere that tells it that any<br>
path that matches files/uploads/* shall be interpreted as a real file path.<br>
<br>
I need to find out where this setting is, and change it to "files/*".<br>
But I don't know where that setting is. Perhaps a htaccess file<br>
<br>
- I cannot prove the ftp uploads elsewhere. I am migrating to Drupal 5<br>
and the existing site already has dozens of links that would be broken<br>
if I moved the files.<br>
<br>
- I really really don't want to have Drupal put its files directly under<br>
'files/'. I am moving to a new uploads module that creates a directory<br>
for every user. With a few thousand users, the "files/" directory would<br>
become impossible to navigate for me.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks for the help.<br>
<br>
Daniel.<br>
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