[development] Why is the Drupal File System relative to website root and not relative to admin/settings/file-system path?

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Luc Stroobant <lstroobant at gmail.com>:

> Clemens Tolboom wrote:
>> Having a development test acceptance and production environment it's a
>> drag when moving the production database and files to an acceptance or
>> development environment.
>>
>> One has to update the files database table and more tables or do
>> trickery with symlinks to get the site running clean.
>>
>> If we could make the filepath in the files table relative to
>> the /admin/settings/file-system path the real files are relocatable
>> without pain. Just do a db load and a rsync to get the files and change
>> the dmin/settings/file-system path.
>>
>> What do you think? Did I miss something important?
>
> On *nix you can easily workaround this problem by creating your site  
> directory as sites/sitename and adding the actual urls as symlinks
>
> So you get something as
>
> directory: mysite
> link: www.mysite.com -> mysite
> link: dev.mysite.com -> mysite
>
> entries in the files table will always look like sites/mysite/files/file.ext
> and are the same for dev and prod...
>

And on windows

junction www.mysite.com mysite
junction dev.mysite.com mysite

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