uploading files to different folder

[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...