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[downhillracer Friend downhillracerJoin date: March 2007Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#119570

Hi there,

I am using the Antares template and would like to arrange my images into differes subfolders and not be limited by having to put everything under the joomlaroot/images/stories folder.

Note: I found this response in an earlier forum post: http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/insert-an-image-in-content/

I have created different folders under the Media Manager and uploaded images to these folders.

Example:
joomlaroot/images/folder1
joomlaroot/images/folder1/subfolder1
joomlaroot/images/folder2
joomlaroot/images/folder2/subfolder1
etc.

When I try to create new content I am still confined to the images uploaded under the joomlaroot/images/stories folder. Why is this and how do I change it?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Steen

[ShannonN Friend ShannonNJoin date: July 2006Posts: 1947Downloads:0Uploads:9 Thanks: 16 Thanked: 172 times in 49 posts]

#217423

downhillracer;12011Hi there,

I am using the Antares template and would like to arrange my images into differes subfolders and not be limited by having to put everything under the joomlaroot/images/stories folder.

Note: I found this response in an earlier forum post: http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/insert-an-image-in-content/

I have created different folders under the Media Manager and uploaded images to these folders.

Example:
joomlaroot/images/folder1
joomlaroot/images/folder1/subfolder1
joomlaroot/images/folder2
joomlaroot/images/folder2/subfolder1
etc.

When I try to create new content I am still confined to the images uploaded under the joomlaroot/images/stories folder. Why is this and how do I change it?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Steen

It should be accessable I have other folders in the images area I can access have you checked you folder permissions?

[downhillracer Friend downhillracerJoin date: March 2007Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#217426

Hi ShannonN

Thanks for the quick reply.

What do you mean excactly by folder permissions? CHMOD permissions? They are 777 for all folders.

Is there a way to change image folder access permissions when you set up a new concent section or category or is that related to the user permissions?

Anyway, I only see three folders when creating new content:
stories
storiesfood
storiesfruit

Regards,
Steen

[Hung Dinh Friend Hung DinhJoin date: September 2014Posts: 4408Downloads:11Uploads:189 Thanks: 309 Thanked: 3310 times in 3 posts]

#217441

Joomla define joomlaroot/images/stories as the defaul folder for image locations for all content. As far as I know there is no way to change this setting via AdminCP.
downhillracer, why is that important? joomlaroot/images/folder1 or joomlaroot/images/stories/folder1 does not make any difference

[Hung Dinh Friend Hung DinhJoin date: September 2014Posts: 4408Downloads:11Uploads:189 Thanks: 309 Thanked: 3310 times in 3 posts]

#217442

Joomla define joomlaroot/images/stories as the defaul folder for image locations for all content. As far as I know there is no way to change this setting via AdminCP.
downhillracer, why is that important? joomlaroot/images/folder1 or joomlaroot/images/stories/folder1 does not make any difference

[downhillracer Friend downhillracerJoin date: March 2007Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#217444

Hi Hung Dinh

I thought that with the high level of configurability that this would also be possible. But, you’re right. I does not make a difference. I will change my image folders to be located under the joomlaroot/images/stories/ folder instead.

Just to satisfy my curiosity, why was joomlaroot/images/stories/ chosen as default?

Regards,
Steen

[Hung Dinh Friend Hung DinhJoin date: September 2014Posts: 4408Downloads:11Uploads:189 Thanks: 309 Thanked: 3310 times in 3 posts]

#217445

Joomla have a reason for that I think.
They want all the content related images should be inside stories folder, other types of images are located under other folder (M_images, banners…..)

[ShannonN Friend ShannonNJoin date: July 2006Posts: 1947Downloads:0Uploads:9 Thanks: 16 Thanked: 172 times in 49 posts]

#217452

downhillracer;12016Hi ShannonN

Thanks for the quick reply.

What do you mean excactly by folder permissions? CHMOD permissions? They are 777 for all folders.

Is there a way to change image folder access permissions when you set up a new concent section or category or is that related to the user permissions?

Anyway, I only see three folders when creating new content:
stories
storiesfood
storiesfruit

Regards,
Steen

Well there ya go the master (Hung) has spoken! We can blame Joomla for the restriction

Re permissions:

you can set the global ‘server’ in the backend to chmod all NEW files and folders to whatever you want and apply the changes to existing files I do this when i do a fresh Joomla install, you need to make sure the configuration.php file is writable first as this is written back to when Joomla saves the global changes etc

As I use ftp a lot rather than the file manager that comes with the siteshosting etc
I set the ftp up first, change permissions on configuration.php etc

Hope this makes sense
ShannonN

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