Where is images folder in joomla

Start Newer 1 Older End 1. If we change the default "images" directory name to "files", would it cause any issues on our Joomla site? For example, the current the file path to our file is: mydomain. Please advise, thanks! Hi Emily, It might cause issues with some extensions that are hard coded to an "images" folder. Other than that, I can't see any issues. By the way, the "Path to Images" folder has to be the same as "Path to Files" folder or to a subfolder of the "Path to Files" folder.

Kind regards, Nick. Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Where does Joomla store article images? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 5 months ago. Active 3 years, 11 months ago. Viewed 4k times. Where in the Joomla directory can I look to find images stored in articles? Improve this question. SomeKittens SomeKittens Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Names of these directories led me to do so.

How should I understand directory name media from Joomla! What media are expected inside? Clients don't have access to the media folder by default. JCE, media manager, a number of galleries and banner sliders, they're all looking to the images folder for content data. We care more about making things easy and streamlined for our clients and keeping them out of trouble than we do about putting things where we're told, so we use images as the main content media folder.

Inside we keep a "files" folder so they can upload pdfs or documents, and we let them organize images and other file types as desired. Background and layout images are kept elsewhere so they can't really destroy their site.

Because they're not being permitted to travel outside the images tree, they can't go wrecking stuff. There's no way we'd want a client to have any access to the media folder. That's for plugins and components to access, not the content writers. Even as a developer I rarely need to go in there and do stuff.

Because of overriding all images, scripts, stylesheets generated by your components, should be included inside media folder. For Permanent, web accessible files it says Use a subdirectory of the media folder. They doesn't mention in this 'development best practices' guide anything about the image folder, so I assume it's intended for non development stuff like uploading your images to use in the articles.

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