Problem with upload directory outside web root - MediaWiki-l

18 Jan 2016

Hi list users,

I have been through many manuals without finding something useful.
I have a common code base and a couple of sites.

Uploads should be outside the web root. To keep it organized and to save 
space on the servers drive.
URL's should not reflect the actual path to the upload directory.

I have tried something like
$wgUploadDirectory = "/home/someuser/mediawiki/files";
$wgUploadPath = "{IP}/img";

I /can/ upload e.g. an image. I can see it in the list and I can find it 
in the automatically generated subdirectory. But when I click on the 
image link, I get an error like
"The requested URL /usr/local/www/mediawiki/img/4/4f/IMG_4025a.jpg was 
not found on this server."

I guess I could solve the problem by using a symlink from the sites 
images directory to the other directory. But I think there /should/ be a 
way to do it by setting the right options in the LocalSettings.php.

Regards,
Jon Theil Nielsen