uploading files to different folder

[Martijn]

When I upload ZIP files they are automatically stored in the images folder, so that the file URL looks like this:

http://www.bd-fans.com/wiki/images/e/ec/File.zip

How can I make that ZIP files, DOC files, TXT files, etc. are all uploaded to a 'files' directory?

thanks in advance.

[Michael Daly]

You can't. At least, not without a major re-write of Mediawiki to support multiple file paths.

[Martijn]

You can't. At least, not without a major re-write of Mediawiki to support multiple file paths.

But then, is it possible to rename the 'images' directory to 'files' so that both images and ZIP files are stored in the 'files' directory?

[Michael Daly]

If you are using 1.14 or newer, File is the visible namespace name. However, you are stuck with /images/ as a directory name unless you want to do a lot of work on the core code.

[Martijn]

If you are using 1.14 or newer, File is the visible namespace name. However, you are stuck with /images/ as a directory name unless you want to do a lot of work on the core code.

But I am using version 1.14, and still it says /images/ instead of /file/!

[Michael Daly]

The directory is images; the namespace is File:. The namespace used to be Images.

[Martijn]

OK thank you. It's a shame this can't be changed. well, perhaps in a newer version..

[Skizzerz]

OK thank you. It's a shame this can't be changed. well, perhaps in a newer version..

How is it a shame? That sounds like a needlessly confusing directory structure and a ton of extra code to make it work. Just rename /images to /files and update $wgUploadPath and $wgUploadDirectory in LocalSettings.php

You might need to run the rebuildImages.php afterwards as well

[Martijn]

How is it a shame? That sounds like a needlessly confusing directory structure and a ton of extra code to make it work. Just rename /images to /files and update $wgUploadPath and $wgUploadDirectory in LocalSettings.php

You might need to run the rebuildImages.php afterwards as well

This does not work. The images and files must be loaded from the /files directory as well. Where can I change that?

If I only change the directory name from /images to /files the website works fine, but can's (of course) load the images.

If I update
$wgUploadPath = "/images"
$wgUploadDirectory = "/images"

the website can't be accessed any more...

[Skizzerz]

Define "website can't be accessed any more..."