Change upload directory to outside the install directory?

  • grahamreeds

    (@grahamreeds)


    17 years, 5 months ago

    Is it possible to change the upload directory to outside the wp-content directory?

    I have my wordpress installed to a completely different directory than the blog, so I would rather the pictures stay with the blog than the installation.

    so instead of /public_html/blogs/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/ make it /public_html/blogs/graham.reeds/images/<year>/<month>/<date>

    I’ve seen several discussions about this but all talk about moving it about in the wp-content and/or talk about a 1.5.2 plugin (ilfilosofo) that does something but no-one actually says what it does (apart from make it like the 1.5.2 style of upload (which I’ve never seen)).

    Thanks, Graham.

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  • vkaryl

    (@vkaryl)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    AFAIK, you can put it anywhere you want to, as long as you give the correct path in the Options/Miscellaneous screen.

    Thread Starter grahamreeds

    (@grahamreeds)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    Alas it would seem not: Giving /graham.reeds/uploads as the folder to upload to it complains about /home/digitalu/public_html/blogs/wordpress//graham.reeds/uploads/2006/10 not being writable (just need to change the file permissions).

    I want it to be from blogs/graham.reeds/uploads. I’ve tried adding ../ to the front of the path but that translated to: wordpress/../graham.reeds/uploads/2006/10

    Where is the path location stored and is it hardcoded to be off the install root or is it easily configurable?

    Thanks, G.

    vkaryl

    (@vkaryl)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    No clue where it’s “stored”. You just have to give exact info in wp-admin/Options/Miscellaneous – and truth to tell, I don’t know if that’s server path or URL – the “default” shown there could be either.

    Try both, I guess.

    pmatos

    (@pmatos)

    17 years ago

    Having the same problem. Is there a way out of this?

    chriskalani

    (@chriskalani)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    Check this out: http://chriskalani.com/archive/upload-outside-of-the-wordpress-directory

    I had the same problem and got it to work pretty simply.

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