[wp-testers] sorta an off the wall bug

[Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)]

Okie dokie.   I am storing it in my memory to remember to have people check 
that as a possible reason why the wp_upload_dir() is failing.

- Phil



-----Original Message----- 
From: Otto
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 6:16 AM
To: wp-testers at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-testers] sorta an off the wall bug

There's nothing wrong with that. The upload_path *should* get set to
the full hard-path when the wp-content directory isn't in the ABSPATH.

When you move the site from one place to another, yes, that
upload_path will break if it's a hard path. But so will many other
things, generally speaking. The upload_path is a user-changable
variable for a reason.

-Otto


On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
<philip at frumph.net> wrote:
> When installing wordpress and running it.    It is setting the upload_path
> to be the path structure of where the upload directory is hardcoded with
> /path/to/wp-content/uploads/  so what is happening is that the 
> wp_upload_dir
> is taking that information.
>
> So when someone moves their site path, it's retaining the hard location, a
> user could move their system from a subdirectory to a root of it or even 
> to
> another location altogether and do sql dumps to restore their site the
> upload_path doesn't reset for the new location
>
>
>
> wp_upload_dir() reports this as it's error:
>
> ["error"]=> string(142) "Unable to create directory
> /home1/tkdanimc/public_html/nikkisprite/wp-content/uploads/2012/06. Is its
> parent directory writable by the server?"
>
> ^ this is because the upload_path is set to
> /home1/tkdanimc/public_html/nikkisprite/wp-content/uploads
>
> get_stylesheet_directory()  returns this:
>
> string(71)
> "/home/tdoherty/public_html/nikkisprite.com/wp-content/themes/comicpress"
>
> ^ which is correct because that is the new location on the new server
>
> changing the upload_path to just wp-content/uploads of course works just
> fine
>
>
>
>
>
> the problem actually comes from wp-admin/includes/schema.php line 931-935
>
> if ( !$upload_path = get_option( 'upload_path' ) ) {
>   $upload_path = substr( WP_CONTENT_DIR, strlen( ABSPATH ) ) . '/uploads';
>   update_option( 'upload_path', $upload_path );
> }
> update_option( 'fileupload_url', get_option( 'siteurl' ) . '/' .
> $upload_path );
>
> What this is doing, is hardcoding the current abspath and the 
> WP_CONTENT_DIR
> with /uploads resulting in the absolute hardcoding of that location
>
>
>
>
> What I am saying the problem is.      function wp_upload_dir()  is not
> properly stripping out the information in line 1445-1448 because the 
> ABSPATH
> is different then it actually is hardcoded in the upload_path
>
>
>
> Does this make sense?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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