How do I make the Wordpress media library be somewhere else? (lemmy.world)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41972137

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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[-] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you are comfortable changing how your site is deployed, then you could use docker to run it. Then, it's trivially easy to map whatever host location for the media you want to use. Just copy your old media into the new location, edit the volume mapping to point at a share from your larger server, recreate the container, done.

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