[SOLVED]Issue with setting my URL Path via config

[blackhawk]

I would like to change the uploads directory name to something else. I read the PDF documentation that comes with the cmsms package for 1.11.6, but I am running into a technical challange. The system is not updating the paths correctly.

I renamed my uploads folder to

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uploadsdemo

My config.php file looks like this...

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$config['root_url'].'/uploadsdemo';
...
...
...
$config['url_rewriting'] = 'mod_rewrite';

I then cleared the cache and template_c directory

I then refreshed my cmsms page, and my local server is generated the following error...

[Tue May 21 11:27:27.674800 2013] [:error] [pid 5572:tid 1716] [client 127.0...] PHP Notice: Undefined index: root_url in C:\\UniServer\\vhosts\\mdt\\dev\\config.php on line 4

I don't know what else to check....I simply want to rename the uploads folder. Any help will be great.

Thanks!

[calguy1000]

Why are you changing the root_url when you really want to change the uploads_path and uploads_url config entries. They are documented in the document too.

[blackhawk]

That's what I thought too, after my confusion...but same problem. I get the same kind of error message. Within my console tab for developer tools, the path to one of my scripts is still ..../uploads/....
and I am using the {uploads_url} tag in front of it, within the admin.

even when I set the following in my config.php file...

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$config['uploads_path'].'/uploadsdemo';
$config['uploads_url'].'/uploadsdemo';

Also, I am not trying to change the name of my image folder under the uploads directory. I want to change the name of the 'uploads' directory itself.

Thanks for the help so far.

[calguy1000]

That is not valid php syntax.

$config['uploads_url'] = $config['root_url'].'/uploadsdemo';
$config['uploads_path'] = $config['root_path'].'/uploadsdemo';

However, I have doubts that that will work directly, because of the way te cms_config class works.

This would work though:

$config['uploads_url'] = 'FULL URL TO UPLOADS DIR';
$config['uploads_path'] = 'ABSOLUTE PATH TO UPLOADS DIR';

if you want to use relative URLS and relative paths for the uploads_url and uploads_path then you will probably have to specify absolute urls and paths for the root_path and root_url config entries.

i.e:
$config['root_path'] = getcwd();
$config['root_url'] = 'ABSOLUTE URL TO SITE';
$config['uploads_path'] = $config['root_path'].'/uploadsdemo';
$config['uploads_url'] = $config['root_url'].'/uploadsdemo';

[blackhawk]

Thank you so much calguy1000, once again you have sharpened my skills and now I have all paths corrected, and no errors in my log files when using your suggested setup for absolute paths.

Thanks!

[calguy1000]

When changing the uploads path and uploads URL use caution, as some modules may have improperly hardcoded paths to assume that the directory is named 'uploads'. I've run into that a couple of times.

[Jos]

use caution, as some modules may have improperly hardcoded paths

As for example Gallery... have to fix that sometime