Using a different Local Drive for media

[WeZ]

Hello...

can someone tell me what i need to do to be able to house my media on a different local drive on the same server?

if i modify the MEDIA_DIR definition in Constants.php it appears to only work for defining where the directory is in relation to the script i.e. ../../data/media

if i place the media anywhere on the same drive, changing this definition seems to work... however it does not work if i hard code the location 'e:/data/media' for e.g.

BUT, if i hard code the MEDIA_PATH definition in global.php, then it will add images and resize them and generate the thumbs perfectly - however when the page refreshes it shows no images...

if i view the souce it shows the file to have a src location of e:/data/images/2/ etc etc and hence because e:/data does not exist on my local machine, it fails...

can anyone help me solve this?

Thanks
WeZ

[V@no]

I dont think windows OS supports virtual directories...I belive up comming Vista will support it, but I think currently its not possible...

[WeZ]

V@no,

Long time... i trust you are well...

Interesting enough, if i were running off IIS i would be able to do it ... but i decided to inflict massive ammounts of pain on myself by trying my luck with Apache... 
kidding...

From Tinkering around i found where i can make a different hostname in Apache (abc.domain.com) point to a diffent drive and that works fine, but how do i do a virtual dir in apache so that i can have www.domain.com/data point to a different drive...

i could use a physical symbolic link but i have been burnt by those

V@no, thanks for your time as per always and i appreciate any feedback you can give.

Kind Regards,
WeZ

[V@no]

Actualy on Unix servers you would be able create symbolic link with something like:

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ln -s /original/path /new/pathAs of domains pointed to different locations, it wont work, because 4images access files localy, not via internet paths.

[WeZ]

Hi V@no,

I overcame my problem here by moving my 4images to the new drive and in my php configured the hostname gallery.mysite.com to point to the new location.

i only have one small problem with this - the site was installed as http://www.mysite.com/4images and it is that when i login or logout it dies trying to get to http://gallery.mysite.com\/index.php

the rest of 4images appears fine...

if i remove the "\" manually the link works. when trying to login and after the refresh dies and i manually remove the "\" i see that i am in fact logged in, it is just the reloading of the page that seems to inset that "\" into the URL.

i read something like this but can't find it in the forum ... any idea's?

Kind Regards,
WeZ

[WeZ]

Hi V@no,

in constants.php i uncommented

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define('SCRIPT_URL', 'http://gallery.mysite.com'); //no trailing slash

and the problem apprears to have dissapeared. is there any risk associated to this change (why was it commented out in the first place) or should i put it back?

Kind Regards,
WeZ

p.s. now you have proof i try myself as well