changing upload url, now not uploading

Try adding the following to your wp-config.php file (before it includes wp-settings.php):

define('UPLOADS', '/images');

Modify “images” if using a different directory name. If that doesn’t quite work, try providing a path traversal to the image directory path to negotiate up from the WP directory (assuming your WP install is in a subdirectory to the root):

define('UPLOADS', '../images');

It might help to set functions-post.php back to the original, as well.

I tried that I’m afraid. Images still go into the WP directory in whatever subfolder I specified.

If I don’t change functions-post to use the “home” reference instead of the “siteurl” reference, anything I put in the config file gets tacked onto the end of https://www.mysite.com/wp (https://www.mysite.com/wp/../images/filename.jpg for your example) and gets uploaded within the wp directory.

I can’t find a method that will get me to https://www.mysite.com/_media that ACTUALLY uploads the file to that folder. WP creates the correct url that gets used when I add the image to a post but doesn’t actually upload the file and I don’t get an error to tell me what the problem is.

None of my site’s content files are in the WP directory because I’m using it as a CMS, not using the templates. I’d like ALL the site files to reside outside the WP directory just as a matter of consistency and to make it easy to upgrade without accidentally deleting my uploaded files.

I’ve found if I hardcode the desired directory path into functions-post it works. Naturally, this isn’t an ideal method since I’d like to just change the config file for each client rather than hack the include file.

Found it! I didn’t realize ABSPATH was the path to WP. When I replaced that with $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] it works and I don’t even have to set anything in the config file:

function wp_upload_dir() {
$siteurl = get_settings('home');
$path = get_settings('upload_path');
$dir = trailingslashit($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . $path;
$url = trailingslashit($siteurl) . $path;

Awesome, exactly what I was looking for after 2 hours searching. Don’t forget to remove any path info from the default upload setting.

I came back to read this page and realize to the newcomer it’s pretty confusing.

The steps to upload files and images outside of WP.

Add to wp-includes/functions-post.php:
function wp_upload_dir() {

// home was siteurl
$siteurl = get_settings(‘home’);

// Upload path is set in Options:Miscellaneous. Put the path to images there, starting with the document root of your server. For me it’s /images
$path = get_settings(‘upload_path’);

// Document_root is just what it sounds like. ABSPATH is the path to WP, which is why whatever you put in the file upload setting will be appended to the location of wp and make it a subdirectory

$dir = trailingslashit($_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’]) . $path;
$url = trailingslashit($siteurl) . $path;

Don’t change anything in wp-config.php.

FYI My solution above no longer works with 2.1.2. Trying to get someone to come up with a revision to my changes to get it to work, should be simple.

Any luck with 2.1.2?