Even if you solve the issue with drupal generated paths (e.g. the ones stored in the files table), you still have a lot of stuff that is in HTML and needs to change (e.g. <img src=...> tags, ...etc. which are not easily changed. So having a good value from the start is important. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Ashraf Amayreh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mistknight@gmail.com">mistknight@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">I don't really understand why the files are not just stored relative to the files folder rather than the site root.<br><br>That way, changing the location of the files folder would only entail changing the file path inside the administration. <br>
<br>When retrieving file paths the function doing that could simply call file_directory_path() and append the filepath from the database. Isn't this how it should standardly be dealt with, or did I miss something?<br>
<br>AA<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Earnie Boyd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">earnie@users.sourceforge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div></div><div>Quoting Luc Stroobant <<a href="mailto:lstroobant@gmail.com" target="_blank">lstroobant@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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Clemens Tolboom wrote:<br>
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Having a development test acceptance and production environment it's a<br>
drag when moving the production database and files to an acceptance or<br>
development environment.<br>
<br>
One has to update the files database table and more tables or do<br>
trickery with symlinks to get the site running clean.<br>
<br>
If we could make the filepath in the files table relative to<br>
the /admin/settings/file-system path the real files are relocatable<br>
without pain. Just do a db load and a rsync to get the files and change<br>
the dmin/settings/file-system path.<br>
<br>
What do you think? Did I miss something important?<br>
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On *nix you can easily workaround this problem by creating your site directory as sites/sitename and adding the actual urls as symlinks<br>
<br>
So you get something as<br>
<br>
directory: mysite<br>
link: <a href="http://www.mysite.com" target="_blank">www.mysite.com</a> -> mysite<br>
link: <a href="http://dev.mysite.com" target="_blank">dev.mysite.com</a> -> mysite<br>
<br>
entries in the files table will always look like sites/mysite/files/file.ext<br>
and are the same for dev and prod...<br>
<br>
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And on windows<br>
<br>
junction <a href="http://www.mysite.com" target="_blank">www.mysite.com</a> mysite<br>
junction <a href="http://dev.mysite.com" target="_blank">dev.mysite.com</a> mysite<br><font color="#888888">
<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></div></div>-- <br>Ashraf Amayreh<br><a href="http://aamayreh.org" target="_blank">http://aamayreh.org</a><br>
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