Video storage location change

deepakchourasia

@Damian : We want to host our videos on a external drive (not inside the installation directory), is it feasible to change the video files location, through some setting in file/db?

LHammonds

I do not see why you cannot just copy your current "uploads" folder to the other location and ensure the same user ownership/permissions. You then would create a link to the new location. If both locations exist on the same filesystem, use a hard link. But if the locations are different file systems, use a symbolic link.

Here is an example on Ubuntu Server to do this process.

## Stop the web service
service stop apache2
## Move the current uploads folder somewhere else
mv /var/www/cumulus/uploads /var/www/tmp-uploads
## Create an "uploads" link where it used to be and send to another location.
sudo ln --symbolic /mnt/usbhd /var/www/cumulus/uploads
## Move the files to the new location
mv /var/www/tmp-uploads/* /mnt/usbhd/uploads/.
## Set ownership of the files to the web service account if necessary
chown www-data:www-data -R /mnt/usbhd/uploads/*
## Remove the temporary directory
rmdir /var/www/tmp-uploads
## Start the web service
service start apache2


You should now have:

/var/www/cumulus/uploads -> /mnt/usbhd/uploads

Anything written under the /var/www/cumulus/uploads folder should actually be going to /mnt/usbhd/uploads

LHammonds