This article is intended to help find where things are saved on the website – in particular, how the Media Manager presents the website. All folder names are bolded.
The top or root level of the website is the folder public_html. Thus, when you connect using Classic FTP, and have it configured to use “/” as the default directory, you don’t see the public_html folder since this folder is the “root” of the website.
If you right-click on an image on the website when viewing through a browser, and click on “view image info” then you see the location something like:
http://www.wesleyknox.com/images/….
This illustrates how the public_html folder is identified with wesleyknox.com.
Under the root the first level of folders is:
- /administrator
- /cache
- /components
- /images
This is the folder we care most about. It contains
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- /images/M_images
- /images/audio
- sermons are here
- /images/banners
- /images/images
- only thing in here is GaryPaterson.jpg – assume this is not referenced
- /images/phocadownload
- only thing in here is index.html
- /images/smilies
- gif files for various faces as expected.
- /images/stories
Important folders in here:
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- /images/stories/LightboxImageGallery
- folders for each photo album
- /images/stories/LightboxImageGallery/CampWeekend_2012
- …
- /images/stories/W360
- folders and files related to the 360 degree view of Wesley-Knox
- /images/stories/collage
- composite images used with banners on pages
- /images/stories/home_images
- image files used with the photographers’ pick
- /images/stories/ksc
- only one pdf in here from March 2012 … looks like this folder isn’t used.
- /images/stories/lightbox
- obsolete as we changed over to LightboxImageGallery
- /images/stories/LightboxImageGallery
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- /images/video
- videos are here
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Tremendous number of images and pdf files in here (/images). I can see KSC documents, home page images, staff photos
- /incude
- /jsc
- /language
- /libraries
- /lionel
- /logs
- /media
This is the tricky one. DON’T PUT ANY FILES UNDER HERE USING FTP.
When you bring up Media Manager, the name “media” is mapped to “/images” (first level folder) so what one sees are the M_images, audio, banners, … and stories folders.
When you look at media using FTP you will see folders:
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- audio
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- jce
- system
- video
If you put files under audio, say, then when you go to look at them using Media Manager – they don’t show up because “media” has been remapped by Joomal to /images.
- /phocadownload
phocadownload is used for the Senior Choir page to allow them to download audio tracks
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- /phocadownload/userupload
- folder for audio for Senior choir
- /phocadownload/userupload/SenioChoir
- /phocadownload/userupload
Folder contains audio files (mp3) for choir
- /plugins
- /temp_joomla
- /templates
- /tmp
There are some files at the first level including
.htaccess
index.php
default.htm