File URL Being changed to /sites/default/files/sites/default/files

Related issue:

Media path being set to sites/default/files/sites/default/files
http://drupal.org/node/401140

There was a patch, but it doesn't seem to affect this behavior. This is still broken, as far as I can tell.

ADDENDUM: This break goes back a ways. I just now tried to install 6.x-1.3 to see if it could provide a workaround (didn't need any of the newer features as far as I could see), and I get the same doubling of the path (sites/default/files/sites/default/files when it should be sites/default/files) and consequent mis-identification of the file as "mixed media".

What's puzzling is that more people aren't reporting this. I haven't been able to do a setup where it doesn't happen, and can't see a way to configure my way out of it, but apparently it's not happening to everyone. Or are they just giving up and not reporting it?

ADDENDUM 2: This also seems to affect external paths. If I stipulate an external path (say, http://domain.tld/sites/default/files/video/Bivona-video-2009-05.flv [not a real path], it gets transformed in the embedded code into http://domain.tld/sites/default/files/sites/default/files. [this refers to 6.x-2.5]

ADDENDUM 3: To clarify, AFAICS this is not a result of any WYSIWYG editor interaction. I did tests on the linked issue where I found the problem still occuring after the WYSIWYG editor (FCK in my case) was completely uninstalled. Filter substitution is happening -- it's just doubling the path to the media directory.

what is set in administer -> swftools -> file handling -> media directory url?

using the most recent -dev I can't reproduce this.

For my own case, the Media directory URL has been http://domain.tld/sites/default/files.

If I reset the media directory URL in settings.php (say, to http://domain.tld/sites/default/files/video), then the path is no longer repeated -- but the filename of the movie is also never added. So the file URL becomes http://domain.tld/sites/default/files/video, when it should be http://domain.tld/sites/default/files/video/moviename.flv.

[edit: corrected examples]

I suggest trying the -dev version to see if you can reproduce it there.

I will try the dev version, but just so we're clear, the latest dev version available at this time is dated March 17, 2009 - 03:30. There have been two minor versions since that date.

EDIT: Woops, I see "Last updated: April 28, 2009 - 19:26". The sort threw me off: It's appearing below 2.4 and 2.5.

the 2.x-dev was last updated on April 28 2009 which places it after the last minor release 2.5 see: http://drupal.org/node/404500

Following are results using 6.x-2.x-dev.

For the case where I've forced a change in the Media URL, the flashvars parameter value looks like this:
<param name="flashvars" value="width=400&amp;height=320&amp;file=http://domain.tld/sites/default/files/video/">

This is against a tag of <swf file="moviename.flv">.

So, I removed the override from settings.php, and edited the tag to <swf file="video/moviename.flv"> Now the flashvars parameter value looks like this:

<param name="flashvars" value="width=400&amp;height=320&amp;file=http://domain.tld/sites/default/files/sites/default/files">

I moved the video to the root of the files directory and changed the tag to <swf file="moviename.flv"> (no changes to module configuration), the flashvars parameter looks like this:

<param name="flashvars" value="width=400&amp;height=320&amp;file=http://domain.tld/sites/default/files/video/">

So stripping the sub-path from in front of the filename seemed to cause the path duplication to go away. HOWEVER, the path in flashvars now directly contradicts the Media URL setting, which I can verify is now http://domain.tld/sites/default/files, NOT http://domain.tld/sites/default/files as implied by the flashvars parameter line.

And it still doesn't seem to be able to find the file.

(I have verified that http://domain.tld/sites/default/files/moviename.flv will resolve to the file in question.)

I give up.

duplicate of: http://drupal.org/node/401140

whoops

1: What changes would once having used an editor make to the system configuration, that could cause this kind of behavior?

2: chargrim has implicitly stated that he did not install an editor on the new clean install. ("have only the core modules and swf tools enabled, and yet I am still getting the same problem. I'm really stuck as to what the cause is here?") So that difference does not exist.

[resetting to duplicate, got set back to active when I replied.]

the duplication of the path is what where I see the largest similarity. I see where you could draw from my "note" otherwise so I've removed the reference to editor and my own setup.

we stepping on each other : )