Here my code use in our local environment it's working but in live site not working When i click image gif image not open it live site.but in localhost it's working properly
$baseDir = Mage::getBaseDir('media');
$file = ('gif' == strtolower(pathinfo($this->_baseFile, PATHINFO_EXTENSION))) ? $this->_baseFile : $this->_newFile;
$path = str_replace($baseDir . DS, "", $file);
return Mage::getBaseUrl('media') . str_replace(DS, '/', $path);