Title: Multisite Upload Directory Change
Last modified: May 4, 2019

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# Multisite Upload Directory Change

 *  [patelmarketing21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patelmarketing21/)
 * (@patelmarketing21)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-upload-dir-change/)
 * How to Change the Default WordPress Media Upload Directory Change In Multisite,
   
   uploads/sites/02/ -> images/site_slug
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by [patelmarketing21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patelmarketing21/).

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 *  [autotutorial](https://wordpress.org/support/users/autotutorial/)
 * (@autotutorial)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-upload-dir-change/#post-11490579)
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/article/multisite-network-administration/#uploaded-file-path](https://wordpress.org/support/article/multisite-network-administration/#uploaded-file-path)
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-upload-dir-change/#post-11494174)
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Moving_uploads_folder](https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Moving_uploads_folder)
 *  [autotutorial](https://wordpress.org/support/users/autotutorial/)
 * (@autotutorial)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-upload-dir-change/#post-11494458)
 * Multisite
    Uploaded File Path # Your first site on a fresh install will put uploaded
   files in the traditional location of /wp-content/uploads/, however all subsequent
   sites on your network will be in the /wp-content/uploads/sites/ folder, in their
   own subfolder based on the site number, designated by the database. These files
   will be accessible via that URL.
 * This is a change from Multisite 3.0-3.4.2, where images of subsites were stored
   in /wp-content/blogs.dir/ and were shown in [http://example.com/files/](http://example.com/files/)
   and [http://example.com/sitename/files](http://example.com/sitename/files) and
   so on. If you started with a Multisite install older than 3.5, it is not an error
   if your images show with the URL of /files/.
 * Regardless of WP version, these locations cannot be changed by site admins. Only
   the network admin can make changes on the site settings page. It is not recommended
   that you change these without understanding how both the ms-files.php works in
   conjunction with your .htaccess, as it can easily become non-functional. If the/
   files/ urls aren’t working, it’s indicative of a misconfigured .htaccess or httpd.
   conf file on your server.
 * Exampe id 2 [http://domain.com/wp-admin/network/site-settings.php?id=2](http://domain.com/wp-admin/network/site-settings.php?id=2)

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [autotutorial](https://wordpress.org/support/users/autotutorial/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-upload-dir-change/#post-11494458)
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