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April 10, 2011 7:14pm
Subscribe [3]#1 / Apr 10, 2011 7:14pm
Has anyone found a good way to script the process of renaming the file upload paths in the DB when moving from local DB to production?
It’s really annoying that this isn’t something you can override in the config file.
It seems like the deployment process is a tricky process.
#2 / Apr 10, 2011 10:26pm
Look no further - http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/deeploy-helper/
I believe there may be one or two more similar addons, but that’s the one I use 😊
#3 / Apr 10, 2011 10:32pm
This doesn’t answer the question at all. I’m looking for an automated solution to this problem. Moving all the configurations to one page may be helpful but it doesn’t solve the issue that you still have to modify upload paths whenever you do a deployment.
#4 / Apr 11, 2011 2:49pm
Have you tried relative paths? Assuming you have the same directory structure across your different environments then the file upload paths will be the same.
Example:
Server Path to Upload Directory - ../uploads/images/
URL of Upload Directory - /uploads/images/
#5 / Apr 11, 2011 3:25pm
I tried this. The relative URL seems to work but the relative path doesn’t which seems strange to me.
#6 / Jun 23, 2011 4:31pm
A bit late to the commentary, but I have to admit I don’t understand why this can’t have an override in config.php like so many other paths, which could utilize the $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] to automate this. Can anyone at explain why this can’t be done? Feature request?