fixed in d7 with sites/sites.php. you can map one path to another so the that two environments can be made to look the same. see http://api.drupal.org/api/function/conf_path/7.
of course d6 still needs some tricks. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Clemens Tolboom<[email protected]> wrote: > Having a development test acceptance and production environment it's a > drag when moving the production database and files to an acceptance or > development environment. > > One has to update the files database table and more tables or do > trickery with symlinks to get the site running clean. > > If we could make the filepath in the files table relative to > the /admin/settings/file-system path the real files are relocatable > without pain. Just do a db load and a rsync to get the files and change > the dmin/settings/file-system path. > > What do you think? Did I miss something important? > >
