# Uploads broken after moving to subfolder

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploads-broken-after-moving-to-subfolder/43693
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [4 Maggio 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploads-broken-after-moving-to-subfolder/43693 "2016-05-04T22:51:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![BaButtons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/babuttons/32/121815_2.png) [@BaButtons](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BaButtons)
#### Post date: [4 Maggio 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploads-broken-after-moving-to-subfolder/43693/1 "2016-05-04T22:51:31Z")

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We followed this guide to forward from a subdomain to a subfolder, and for the most part it’s working very well. However, all of my post uploads are 404ing, even after the remap command, for both `/uploads` and `/forum/uploads`.

I noticed that when I try to `ls -l public/forum/uploads` I get `public/forum/uploads -> ../uploads`, but trying `ls -l public/uploads` yields `cannot access ../uploads: No such file or directory`.

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### Author: ![BaButtons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/babuttons/32/121815_2.png) [@BaButtons](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BaButtons)
#### Post date: [5 Maggio 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploads-broken-after-moving-to-subfolder/43693/2 "2016-05-05T20:16:33Z")

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Well, that was easy. In the guide, I followed I was instructed to include this in my `app.yml`:

```yaml
run:
  - exec:
      cd: $home
      cmd:
        - mkdir -p public/forum
        - cd public/forum && ln -s ../uploads && ln -s ../backups
        - rm public/uploads
        - rm public/backups

```

I removed the last two lines:

```yaml
        - rm public/uploads
        - rm public/backups

```

and rebuilt and now all is well. 👍

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [18 Aprile 2017, 10:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploads-broken-after-moving-to-subfolder/43693/4 "2017-04-18T10:28:05Z")

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