Title: Moving wordpress uploads folder
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Moving wordpress uploads folder

 *  [mali77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mali77/)
 * (@mali77)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-uploads-folder/)
 * I have a working installation of wordpress on my intranet. It is running on Debian.
   I have the MYSQL database residing on another partition that is mounted as /Data.
 * What I am trying to do is move the wp-uploads folder to that partition too. I
   went into wordpress settings and typed in the location of the new folder to /
   Data/wpuploads. I can upload the images and insert them in the post however when
   I Preview or Publish the post nothing shows up.
 * So I actually grabbed the full URL like [http://ipaddress/Data/wpuploads/2011/02/imagename.jpg](http://ipaddress/Data/wpuploads/2011/02/imagename.jpg),
   and I don’t get anything. However when I ssh into the server I can see that the
   image is there.

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 *  [Alwyn Botha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123milliseconds/)
 * (@123milliseconds)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-uploads-folder/#post-1910906)
 * Permissions on /Data and its content (imgs) should be same as uploads folder.
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-uploads-folder/#post-1910909)
 * _“What I am trying to do is move the wp-uploads folder to that partition too.”
 * Why? To what end?
 *  [Alwyn Botha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123milliseconds/)
 * (@123milliseconds)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-uploads-folder/#post-1910914)
 * >>Why? To what end?
 * Guessing here …
 * /Data is larger
    /Data backed up and restore separately permissions auto expand
   partition if required access these images from other applications
 * safely read-only mount just /data for others to access images
 * and so on…
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-uploads-folder/#post-1910916)
 * Ahhh… I see.
 * Probably the same basic thing I accomplish by using Logical Volume Management.
   Makes sense… I guess. Although, I can’t think of a good reason why you would 
   want to allow other applications access to resources in “web accessible” directories
   not located within their own root directory confines… But we all have our peccadilloes.
   As long as it works for you! 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [mali77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mali77/)
 * (@mali77)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-uploads-folder/#post-1910995)
 * Yes 123milliseconds, you are right Data is larger and gets backed up separately.
   I don’t want to access these images from any other application but wordpress.
 *  [rsgrone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rsgrone/)
 * (@rsgrone)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-uploads-folder/#post-1910997)
 * If the images in the post are being resized and you are using Timthumb, they 
   will never show up using either an external link or virtual link… that’s the 
   only thing I can think of…
 *  Thread Starter [mali77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mali77/)
 * (@mali77)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-uploads-folder/#post-1911033)
 * So I guess no one has the answer to this?
 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-wordpress-uploads-folder/#post-1911038)
 * I’m guessing [these instructions](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Moving_wp-content)
   might imply that although you can use them to move /wp-content, /wp-content is
   assumed to still be located inside of your web accessible directory.
 * I would have to guess that a symlink…
 * [example] ln -s /Data/wp-content /var/www/html/wp-content
 * ..might fail because of the settings in wp-config.php. But that’s strictly an
   un-qualified guess. I don’t know if there is something creative you can do with
   wp-config to make it work, or not.

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