Title: absolute path issue
Last modified: February 2, 2024

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# absolute path issue

 *  Resolved [Becki Beckmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/becki/)
 * (@becki)
 * [2 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/absolute-path-issue/)
 * Dear support team,
   creating a backup job I always used absolute paths, eg/kunden/
   homepages/12/d123456789/htdocs/backups/full//kunden/homepages/12/d123456789/htdocs/
   backups/mysql-dumps-only/but this is no longer possible. it always reverts back
   to relative pathsuploads/backwpup-973b2f-backups/would be nice to get absolute
   paths back 🙂thanks a lot for auch a great plugin!GreetingsBecki

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 *  [ellmann creative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellmanncreative/)
 * (@ellmanncreative)
 * [2 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/absolute-path-issue/#post-17399911)
 * I just found the same problem. What’s going on guys?
 * It seems that trying to set a relative path via ../../……. etc. also reverts it
   back to the default path.
 * Editing it is fine, as long as it’s within the WP folder. As soon as I try to
   leave the folder, it reverts back to the default.
 * Attempting to set a full path to somewhere within the WP folder also fails.
 * Is this a security setting I can disable somewhere?
    -  This reply was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by [ellmann creative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellmanncreative/).
 *  [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * (@duongcuong96)
 * [2 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/absolute-path-issue/#post-17443116)
 * Hi [@becki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/becki/), [@ellmanncreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellmanncreative/)
 * This is an intended behaviour for security reason, but we have plan to allow 
   absolute path backup in the next version!
 * Thank you for the suggestion!
 *  [ellmann creative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellmanncreative/)
 * (@ellmanncreative)
 * [2 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/absolute-path-issue/#post-17750730)
 * Hey. What’s the plan here? I see I’m _still_ restricted to making backup files
   in the very PUBLIC web directory. I’m on BackWPup version 4.0.4 now.
 *  Thread Starter [Becki Beckmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/becki/)
 * (@becki)
 * [2 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/absolute-path-issue/#post-17752647)
 * if it’s urgent use this workaround -> in the database wp_options there’s an entry
   called ‘backwpup_jobs’.
   it’s a serialized php string. unserialize this string.
   modify value ‘backupdir’ with the path to your backup folder. then serialize 
   the string again and update the database.best keep a backup of the ‘backwpup_jobs’
   [https://onlinephp.io/unserialize](https://onlinephp.io/unserialize)
 * use at your own risk and don’t update the job backup dir option via the web interface
   as it will revert back to relative path
   greetingsBeckmann
 *  [ellmann creative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ellmanncreative/)
 * (@ellmanncreative)
 * [2 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/absolute-path-issue/#post-17754136)
 * Thank you. I guess I’ll do that, and come up with a MU plugin to fix those paths
   according to a pattern I typically use.

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 * Last activity: [2 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/absolute-path-issue/#post-17754136)
 * Status: resolved