By Sifro on

Hello,

i've got a strange problem on my drupal-powered website.

I have 2 folders in my root directory (in which drupal is installed) called "audio" and "video".

Some files inside these directory work, other don't and i get a "page-not-found" error, even if the file is there.

An example:

http://www.tifogrifo-webradiotv.net/audio/la_presentazione.mp3 ----> This WORKS!
http://www.tifogrifo-webradiotv.net/audio/ReteCampagnacci.mp3 ----> This DOESN'T WORK!

Both files *are* in the directory. With my ftp client i could connect to the server, see the file, download it, reproduce it. But if i type the address, it just doesn't work. On the website there are some videos and audios. The one which work, are accessible also through direct URL. The ones which don't work have the same page-not-found problem.

What's happening? Why some work and some dont?

Thanks!

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Comments

gollyg’s picture

gollyg commented

be wary of spaces and capitals in filenames. This may be causing the issues.

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Sifro commented

capitals and spaces are fine, i checked it almost 50 times :D

gollyg’s picture

gollyg commented

I dont know if this could be the issue, but you might want to check the files table in the db - working with flashvideo module sometime the mime type is left out of the table and it breaks the file. I dont think this would be the issue, but perhaps scanning for any discrepencies might narrow it down? (this would only be an issue if the audio module intercepts calls to the file).

wish it was the capitals ;)

btw, for the first file i get quicktime player (mac os 10.5) with a question mark, meaning that there may be something about the file that is unusual. This may not be an issue on your machine if you have the codec, but may be an issue when the audio is getting uploaded/analysed by libmp3 or whatever is configured on your server). Just another thing that *could* be causing a problem.

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Sifro commented

hello and thanks for your time.

Unluckly, i dont have any mp3 analysis software processing the file, nor any audio\video modules.

It's not a permission problem.

I didn't really undestand what to check in the files table in the db.

thanks!

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WorldFallz commented

this might be obvious, but since you didn't mention it-- check that the permissions on the files are identical.

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Sifro commented

It was a web hosting problem... nothing to do with drupal! ^^