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How do I make the Wordpress media library be somewhere else? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been a bit short sighted. I set up my WordPress instance on a server with... Not a huge amount of space. A year or so later, and now I'm running out. I have another server which I could serve files from, and it's got loads of space. Is there a way that I could get the Wordpress media library to just... Serve and upload from that one instead? Preferably migrate it there as well.

Too many people I find online get some sort of yuppie answer like an expensive plug-in with an Amazon CDN subscription. I just want to homebrew this. I don't intend to host the major site assets for the site structure on it, and I'm fine with images taking a little longer to load.

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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

There are a couple options. You could present some storage and mount it over nfs. Move the whole server, as you mentioned. Set up a little http server and only put the media over there.

Or, why not take this opportunity to move away from a platform whose CEO is hostile and abusive to the community? https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/12/wordpress-vs-wp-engine-drama-explained/

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