By effebi on

I set up many Drupal sites with multisite sysem

I just noticed every site save in the wrong place uploaded files, I mean

installation directory is:
/home/user/drupal/

sites save files in
/home/user/drupal/file

instead of

/home/user/drupal/sites/domain1.com/sites/
or
/home/user/drupal/sites/domain2.com/sites/
etc..

any idea?

thanks

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gpk’s picture

gpk commented

The "file system path" setting is always relative to the folder that Drupal is installed in. So you need to specify "sites/domain1.com/files", not just "files" on the settings page.

I agree that it would make more sense if the path entered was always assumed to be relative to the relevant site folder.

gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk

effebi’s picture

effebi commented

thank you so much :)

gpk’s picture

gpk commented

Nay probs

gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk

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sprintstar commented

I have just moved to a multisite install and am facing the same problem. I did have an additional domain as a separate install of Drupal, now its part of a multisite install. The database is unchanged from when it was a single site install.

Eg
/public_html/sites/mydomain.com
/public_html/sites/mydomain.com/files
etc

Everything was going swimmingly until I noticed my attached images weren't working. I had obviously copied all the images from the old 'files' directory to the new 'files' directory. I am using ImageCache and Inline to automatically inline images on nodes. I would have thought the File system path: of simply 'files' should work!

So I saw this post and set my File system path to 'sites/falconpropertyservices.com/files', and now my thumbnails work on existing nodes:

http://www.mydomain.com/sites/mydomain.com/files/imagecache/thumbnail/fi...

However clicking on them gives:

http://www.mydomain.com/files/image.jpg

which fails, page not found.. :(

Created new content and upload a file. This goes into:

http://www.mydomain.com/sites/mydomain.com/files/newimage.jpg

But the path to the thumbnail is now:

http://www.mydomain.com/sites/mydomain.com/files/imagecache/thumbnail/si...

And that just not correct. Imagecache doesn't look like its even created a thumbnail. The link surrounding the thumbnail however is correct:

http://www.falconpropertyservices.com/sites/falconpropertyservices.com/f...

So if anyone can help me get this working I would appreciate it a great deal!

-Chris

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sprintstar commented

I cleaned out the imagecache tables in the db and removed the imagecache folder. After that it started working ok, though the thumbnail paths are:

http://www.mydomain.com/sites/mydomain.com/files/imagecache/thumbnail/si...

Which is dumb! Why can't Drupal assume that the 'files' folder is relative to the sites/mydomain.com folder?

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SteveK commented

I'm having the same problem and haven't found a fix for it yet. It doesn't seem to want to initialize the image cache.

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