Thumbnails don't work properly when RewriteURLs is turned on

jmelton98 · November 2013

running on nginx with the following rewrites:

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ @forum;
}

location @forum {
rewrite ^/(.+)$ /index.php?p=$1 last;
}

When RewriteURLs = FALSE, then previews show properly and thumbnails are saved in /uploads/thumbnails/FileUpload. However when RewriteURLs = TRUE then thumbnails are not saved and the location it is looking for the thumbnail in is /utility/thumbnail/FileUpload, which doesn't exist.

How is the thumbnail path being generated and why does it change with RewriteURLs turned on?

Thanks

peregrine · November 2013

Welcome to the Community.

should we guess your version of vanilla? Depending on version of vanilla - the answer and solution may be different.

good find. I wonder if its replicateable in apache with the same version you are using.

thse might help.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/23130/forum-post-ettikett-etiquette

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/17954/food-for-thought-forum-etiquette

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/25115/how-to-how-can-a-new-user-better-help-the-community-when-asking-a-question

there have been a few recent discussions pertaining to thumbnails that may provide insight if you search forum on thumbnail

probably in here class.mediamodel.php or here class.fileupload.plugin.php

jmelton98 · November 2013

I am running 2.0.18.8

I found this in class.mediamodel.php:

$Path = ltrim(GetValue('Path', $Media), '/');
  if ($RequiresThumbnail) {
     $ThumbPath = MediaModel::PathUploads()."/thumbnails/$Path";
     if (file_exists(MediaModel::PathUploads()."/thumbnails/$Path"))
        $Result = "/uploads/thumbnails/$Path";
     else
        $Result = "/utility/thumbnail/$Path";
  } else {
     $Result = "/uploads/$Path";
  }
  return $Result;

Which would seem to imply that is is checking for the file in "/uploads/thumbnails/$Path", but not finding it (when RewriteURLs is turned on), so it's returning "/uploads/$Path".

I am new to Vanilla, so please bear with me

jmelton98 · November 2013

Returning "/utility/thumbnail/$Path" I mean...

peregrine · November 2013

I tested on apache with rewrite TRUE and FALSE

worked both ways.

{ rewrite ^/(.+)$ /index.php?p=$1 last; }

should it be (I am not good at rewrite rules and no nothing much about nginx rewrites

{ rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?p=$1 last; }

jmelton98 · November 2013

This seems to have fixed the issue. Added additional rewrite rule

location ^~ /utility/thumbnail/ { rewrite ^/(.+)$ /index.php?p=$1 last;}

as found here
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/22736/fileupload-don-t-create-thumbnails-if-rewriteurls-true

Thumbnails don't work properly when RewriteURLs is turned on

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