Directory Structure

[Seeker-Smith]

I'm mostly interested in where attachments are stored in or out of the forums root if it's similar to vb.

 

[M@rc]

I'm mostly interested in where attachments are stored in or out of the forums root if it's similar to vb.

It's stored inside of the XF folder.

If you're worried about people accessing private attachments, see this thread:

XF 2.0 - Attachment URLs

Hi. We have an issue with all of our attachment URLs, mostly for images, in posts following the format of https://fellowsfilm.co.uk/attachments/untitleadsadad-png.24344/. However, our server setup requires our URLs to use the external data URL we've defined in `config.php`. Any ideas how we can...

xenforo.com

 

[Seeker-Smith]

Thanks. Permission checks are most of my question but the web root is another. Example vb stores attachments store attachments in a separate directory not accessible from the outside.

 

[Karelke]

Thanks. Permission checks are most of my question but the web root is another. Example vb stores attachments store attachments in a separate directory not accessible from the outside.

The same can be done with XenForo.

 

[Mike]

It's stored inside of the XF folder.

By default, for setup simplicity generally.

You can specify the path for these "internal data" files such that they're at a different location that isn't in the web root for example. It requires an add-on to bring in the necessarily bits of the library, but you can also choose to serve these files externally via S3 (or services with a compatible API) for example.