Images from a site not being served

I think we found the issue with how your /media files were getting munged. It would seem that anything in SITE/media are being redirected without our control to wiki.

Congratulations, you should be solid web-wise now.

Peter

Had this problem and could only find this page to help. My solution is...

Go to the server admin, go to the web section and select the sites tab. Click the appropriate (or in my case only site in the list, which had no host name) site. In the section below click 'Web Services' and untick Wikis (I also unticked blogs). Save the settings, restart the server and you should be able to access those folders no problem now!

Hope that helps. If you want to use the wiki though, this obviously will be no good.

Regards,

Leonard
AtomWorks.co.uk - Web Design and Development

I do confirm that the wiki is the problem; Turning the wiki of will fix it. I can add to this that you can still run a wiki at an other site. for example www.mysite.com has the issue with a file /Library/WebServer/Documents/media/something... You can still have a site wiki.mysite.com

I adding a couple tags so that the folks running joomla can find this error as well. Joomla 1.5 gets stuck in "Database Configuration " step as the "next" button becomes unresponsive.( Joomla 1.6 alpha has the same problem with the first installation screen.) The apache logs reports: "GET /media/system/js/mootools.js HTTP/1.1" 400 2867 . In other words, it can find the mootools.js which is responsible for the button /menu behavior. I think this is /media issue. I'll file a bug.

I took a look through the apache config files on Snow Leopard server, and found that there are a bunch of top-level web "folders" (including /media, as well as /wikihelp, /settings, /webcal, etc) are used for the various web services. When you enable the services, it adds ProxyPass directives which effectively redirects (via a proxy) incoming queries for these "folders" to various other services running on the server. Specifically, when you enable Wikis or Blogs or Calendar services on a site, it adds (via an include) a ProxyPass directive so that any incoming request for /media/* will be redirected to http://127.0.0.1:8087/media/*, and whatever you may have in your media folder will be completely ignored.

If you want to see all of these "reserved" folders, use the command: "grep -R ProxyPass /etc/apache2" on your server. They're scattered through various config files, so it can be a little hard to tell which are active on which site (and why) without some experimentation.

Anyway, the net result is that Apple's web services use this "folder" name; if you want to use Apple's web services on that site, you'll need to use a folder name that doesn't conflict.