Images folder

[gruntre69]

I have just cloned a zen 1.3.7 site and now I want to set it up and bring it live.

It is an add on domain on an existing web account. What I would like to do is use the images file from the original uncloned site. Does anybody know which file points to the default images folder and if its possible to redirect to this folder so as to just maintain one images folder for the two sites rather than doubling up the image data.

Both sites will sell the same products mostly.

[martinvelikov]

You will need to edit the 2 configuration files (the one under the main store directory and the one under the administrator directory):

includes/configure.php
admin/includes/configure.php

The settings you need to alter are resepctively:

for includes/configure.php

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

and for admin/includes/configure.php

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'images/');
define('DIR_WS_CATALOG_IMAGES', HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . 'images/');
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG_IMAGES', DIR_FS_CATALOG . 'images/');

For the second file you are altering make sure you are giving the right path as there are 3 other options used to define the full path to the images directory - HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER, DIR_WS_CATALOG and DIR_FS_CATALOG. All three are defined in the same file so it should not be hard to adjust the desired configuration.

[schoolboy]

Hmmm... not strictly possible...

The DEFINE statements in the configure files show relative, not absolute paths, because the path uses a base URL declaration in the page headers.

So, where you see the following (for example):

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

... it means that it will APPEND images/ to the base url path, which will be something like:

http://www.yourzencartinstallation.com/

...resulting in...

http://www.yourzencartinstallation.com/images/

If you were now to put a FULL PATH in the DEFINE:

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'http://www.somewebsite.com/images/'); 

The result would be:

http://www.yourzencartinstallation.com/http://www.somewebsite.com/images/

Which is basically rubbish...