Is it possible to relocate the media folder for a site?

Thanks,

Chris

Yes, I know you can create a symbolic link or directory junction for this, but I was hoping for a way to configure it through mojoportal (either through user.config or through the web interface).

I am working on our build and release processes and would like to be able to deploy a mojoportal website by unzipping the website structure (created by our continuous integration server) in place and then updating the IIS config to point to the new wwwroot. This would allow us to have multiple versions of the website on the IIS server at the same time, to facilitate rolling back a release should something go wrong.

The problem is that user data (primarily the media folder, but we face a similar problem with search indexes) is stored within the website folder structure. The rest of the website can live in our source code repository, but these folders are updated through user interaction with the website. I would argue that the media folder is more closely tied to the database than it is the rest of the website structure. As such, it would be nice to be able to configure the media folder location similar to how you would configure your database connection.

Anyways, yes, you can deal with this using a symbolic link, but it complicates the release process by adding an extra step to create the link after deploying the web site structure.

Thanks,

Chris