Hello,

we are using Joomla 2.5 and K2

we are hosting about 30 websites and need to store all data files in one directory which is located at the root of the server. Each CMS has a htaccess re-direction of a "data" folder to this root folder, so that image browsing, e.g. with JoomlaCK (configured to "../data") accesses this data folder. We need to do this, since we need to separate all CMS content from the data content. All websites need to access all files, so it is not possible to use the standard image folder. All that works with images included in articles, and it also works with the standard extra image content, but this does not work with K2 images browsed through the image tab of the article editor.

The image browser and the media manager throws "unable to connect to backend" and it's also not possible to enter a manual path to the image.

We need to fix this, since we need images stored in the image tab, whether selected with a browser or simply manually added to the path.

Can anyone help?

Jörg

Hello Jorg,

You need your hosting provider's assistance for this one. For multisite enviroments you need to setup symlinks if you wish to place your photos outside the root folder.

As for the media manager K2 uses elFinder which supports symlinks (with some restrictions due to security concerns). I have not tried this but I thibk your hosting provider will be able to set this up.

Hi,

thanks for your answer. The problem seems, that the K2 Image browser is not capable of resolving relative links correctly, which works with the build in Joomla Media Manager. If i confire the media manager root path to "../data" it correctly browses through the files outside the Joomla cms root.

I indeed solved the problem with editing the K2 item PHP file and removed the "readonly", so that i can enter the complete relative path manually, which works perfectly. Still the browser does not work, but changing that would be too much work for me at the moment.

Jörg