Manual:$wgUploadPath
| Server URLs and file paths: $wgUploadPath | |
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| The path segment of the upload directory. |
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| Introduced in version: | Before 1.1.0 |
| Removed in version: | Still in use |
| Allowed values: | (path) |
| Default value: | "{$wgScriptPath}/images" (1.8+)"{$wgScriptPath}/upload" (pre-1.1 - 1.7)(Note: The default value of this variable depends on other variables, such as the values set in Setup.php, after LocalSettings.php is executed) |
| Other settings: Alphabetical | By function | |
Details
[edit]The relative path to the upload directory. This is used to construct the URLs for viewing uploaded files.
In most cases this is just the path component, such as "/w/images". If uploaded files are served from a different domain, this can be a fully-qualified URL with hostname, such as "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en".
If the variable contains a local path (without "http://") then it must start with a slash, otherwise it will result in a bad URL. (For example if you set it to "foldername" it will result in files being loaded from "http://www.example.comfoldername" - note the missing slash after ".com")
To enable permission checks on image files, $wgUploadPath can be pointed to the img_auth.php script ($wgUploadPath = "$wgScriptPath/img_auth.php";) - see Manual:Image authorization for instructions.
LocalSettings.php then all dependent variables including $wgUploadDirectory will need redefining also. If both these settings are not coherent the files will be uploaded to a different folder ($wgUploadDirectory) than from where MediaWiki will try to retrieve them for viewing ($wgUploadPath)!$wgUploadPath