Images in FTP but URL says page not found

Question

So I have been reading all i can for the last 2 hours and have not a solution.

I moved my drupal site from one host to another, all works well minus:

images in the the 'sites/defualt/files' folder are in the FTP and i can priview them there but when got to the URL I just a page not found message.

example image URL: http://www.example.com/sites/default/files/image.jpg this what's in my code and the path is correct but the image does not show.

Here's what I have checked:

• Clean url's are enabled,
• 'admin/settings/file-system', set to public
• 'admin/settings/file-system', File system path: 'sites/default/files' as it should be
• .htaccess in files folder is set to

SetHandler Drupal_Security_Do_Not_Remove_See_SA_2006_006
# Options None
# Options +FollowSymLinks

and I have tried it with '#' removed

• I have tried leaving the settings.php $base_url ="" blank and with my exsample domain
• I have the files folder set to cmod '777'
• Checked the database files table, path is set to 'sites/default/files/imagename.png', which seems right
• image names do not have spaces in them.
• I have been flushing the cache for the testing different settings
• I have run the cron as well.

I don't know what I am missing the files are there, the paths are even correct when i look at the rendered html, but the images are just not showing and the direct urls say 'page not found'

Any Help would be awesome, I thought i had this problem before and solved it but i have no idea I missed.

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

Hhmm, have you checked that all parent folders have at least the execute flag set so that you can browse into them? I think it is safe to set all folders as: 755

Another way to debug this is trying to download other files contained in other folders, e.g. the README in root or some files in the misc/ and modules/ folders.