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

[Ashraf Amayreh]

I don't really understand why the files are not just stored relative to the
files folder rather than the site root.

That way, changing the location of the files folder would only entail
changing the file path inside the administration.

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?

AA

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Earnie Boyd
<earnie at users.sourceforge.net>wrote:

> 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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> Earnie
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>
>


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Ashraf Amayreh
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