Change default folder for storing images

[Frank Vèssia]

Is there a way to change the default folder for storing images with the image field? With some hooks maybe? I need this because my images can be shared by users and the default path it's "ugly" good for production images but not for sharing images.

[ryan]

There isn't an easy way to do that, but you can easily setup your alias from your .htaccess file.

For instance, say that you wanted this URL:

/site/assets/files/123/somefile.jpg

to be accessible at this URL:

/123/somefile.jpg

You could do that with this rewrite rule, placed in your .htaccess file right after the "RewriteEngine On" line:

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+/.*)$ /site/assets/files/$1 [L,QSA]

[Frank Vèssia]

mmm...that's good, even It's not what I expected to do. I'm really bad in htaccess...there a way to make this thing more complex? I mean, right now the result it's

http://www.domain.com/pageid/imagefile.jpg

I would like something like

http://cdn.domain.com/pageid/imagefile.jpg

In this way if I want to activate a real CDN in a future, I can do that without change any code, just removing the htaccess directive.

[ryan]

You would just need to setup the cdn hostname so that it points to the same thing as www (and that your server recognizes it). This is not something you'd setup in htaccess, beyond what's already mentioned. But I would suggest not doing that, as it's not ideal from an SEO perspective to have two hostnames pointing to the same thing.