# Image upload, relative path instead of full path
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-upload-relative-path-instead-of-full-path/79533
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 1, 2018, 9:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-upload-relative-path-instead-of-full-path/79533 "2018-02-01T09:41:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Chopper](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chopper)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 9:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-upload-relative-path-instead-of-full-path/79533/1 "2018-02-01T09:41:34Z")
Hello,
When I upload an image on my Discourse, the image path is full not relative:
My question is, Is there any possibility to have the relative path `/uploads/...` instead of the full path ?
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-upload-relative-path-instead-of-full-path/79533/2 "2018-02-01T10:24:10Z")
Unless you want to write a plugin for that, I’m pretty sure there’s no way to do that.
Why do you want these links to be relative?
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### Author:  [@Chopper](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chopper)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-upload-relative-path-instead-of-full-path/79533/3 "2018-02-01T10:26:09Z")
We use a SSH tunel to connect to our discourse from outside.
ext ([external.com](http://external.com)) → int ([example.com](http://example.com)) but of course, all image are broken. With the relative path, there will be no problem.
In fact, why this is not relative path by default ?
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 10:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-upload-relative-path-instead-of-full-path/79533/4 "2018-02-01T10:29:49Z")
That’s not a supported setup – Discourse needs to know the hostname it is running at. I’m pretty sure that there will be more breakage than just images if the hostname is wrong.
I you need outside access to Discourse, you’ll need to use a technique that allows you to access Discourse at the original domain name configured in `app.yml`, e.g. a VPN tunnel.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 1:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-upload-relative-path-instead-of-full-path/79533/5 "2018-02-01T13:26:25Z")
> [@Chopper](#):
>
> In fact, why this is not relative path by default ?
If you put the images on a CDN then your problem is gone 😉
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### Author:  [@Chopper](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chopper)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-upload-relative-path-instead-of-full-path/79533/6 "2018-02-01T15:03:23Z")
Damm simple. I juste add this in the config file:
```plaintext
DISCOURSE_CDN_URL: //externe.com:8883
```
And rebake all the post !
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-upload-relative-path-instead-of-full-path/79533/7 "2024-06-08T12:43:27Z")
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