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How do large boards handle attachments? Right now I have about 7GB of attachments in my file system. I was just curious how others deal with this issue. Especially if you have more than one web server...
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I have our website on a server.... Great.
Presently it is storing attachments in the database.... Not so great.
So, I want to use the vBulletin Attachment Manager to store them elsewhere.
To merely put them in a different folder on the forum server is easy....
I modified the Attachments to say
"Attachments are currently being stored in the filesystem at ../files"
(note... this is the sub-dir I created with appropriate permissions).
This works great.
So, let's move them to a Different server.
I have a different server and can access it via IPaddress.
It has a folder under the root called /files, with all the appropriate permissions.
So I change the Attachment manager to say
Attachments are currently being stored in the filesystem at http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/files
No sir... it just doesn't like this... the error message I get is
"We attempted to write a test file to http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/files, but we were unsuccessful. Please verify that the web server has write/delete permissions for this path."
For the life of me I can't figure out what I am doing wrong.
Make sure you copy those attachment files to your PC just in case...
I accidentlly lost my smilies moving to a new server...Thankfully, I backed up the /images & /gallery directories to my pc beforehand...took awhile, but worth it...
But, they way to move attachments to a another Server with link the attachment.php to the new Domain ist not the best way. For example, what is if the extern server also full?
The best way is, to modify the Forum so, that it stores the Real-URL to The images like: www.forums.de/imagesdir/image.jpg than you can use many HDDs and many Servers.
But I don’t now how can I do this
Whit the way from “scotty” I can copy al my attachments to the Upload Server, that’s great. But what is, if the HDD full an I but in a new one? Than I have the same Problem as now.
I use light frontend http server which serve attachments/images and backend server which serve php.
attachment.php with simple hack points frontend where get attachement body and this work. client not give direct link anytime.
be carefull: use this method only, if you have no permissions on your attachments! the main advandtage to use attachment.php is, that you have full control over the rights to download depending on used forum & user groups!
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Whit the way from ?scotty? I can copy al my attachments to the Upload Server, that?s great. But what is, if the HDD full an I but in a new one? Than I have the same Problem as now.
than you'll need an attachment server with a bigger HDD. Pack your attachment into a gzip/tar, copy per FTP directly to the new server and put it in the same directory structure, as the old one. I've done this a few times when moving to bigger hardware.
be carefull: use this method only, if you have no permissions on your attachments! the main advandtage to use attachment.php is, that you have full control over the rights to download depending on used forum & user groups!
than you'll need an attachment server with a bigger HDD. Pack your attachment into a gzip/tar, copy per FTP directly to the new server and put it in the same directory structure, as the old one. I've done this a few times when moving to bigger hardware.
Yew, but I have 240GB of Attachements. The Max HDD Size is about 300GB. So this way is not the right for me.
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10-28-2006, 07:41 PM
