Hi all, I’m trying to change the Discourse uploads location to an external storage location on my self-hosted instance due to space constraints. I have a CIFS share mounted and already copied all existing uploads with the same directory structure to the mounted location. Then, I added the followin…

Here is what is the default: volumes: - volume: host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone guest: /shared You probably want something like this: volumes: - volume: host: /var/discourse/shared/standalone guest: /shared - volume: host: /your/cifs/share/discourse-uplo…

True! I tried it that way, and it worked, just keeping in mind that the mounted storage location must have the right permissions. root:root doesn’t work, but _default_hostname:www-data seems to work. Another thing I noticed: uploads in topics, even with moving them to the new storage location, don’…

[image] Lander0606: Another thing I noticed: uploads in topics, even with moving them to the new storage location, don’t work anymore and have to be re-uploaded That shouldn’t be. Maybe you copied the files to the wrong place.

I was thinking that too, but I double checked that I copied the whole uploads folder from shared/standalone/ to my external storage location, including the default and other sub folders. It’s important to mention that I tried a few times to change the uploads location with different configurations …

It’s strange that uploading it again fixes it. You can look at Uploads.pluck(:url) in rails and see if there’s something strange there.

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) June 16, 2025, 10:42am 4

That shouldn’t be. Maybe you copied the files to the wrong place.

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