Media Servers | Communifire Documentation

Communifire has advanced storage settings which allow you to store videos, photos, files and content files on your own storage devices. If you're worried about your web server not having enough space, use this area to take the heavy load of data off your web server. 

1. Photos Section: All photos (including thumbnail images, album cover pictures). This also includes user profile picture and avatar picture.
2. Videos Section: All video files (including original video files and the converted flv files, as well as thumbnail images).
3. Documents Manager (Files section): All documents uploaded by the community users. These can be any file types (like .doc, .jpg, or any other format).
4. CMS Section: All attachments uploaded to content (i.e. CMS pages, articles, blogs, etc).

Default Media Servers in Communifire

The Communifire Installation process creates the following default media servers:

1. http://your_application_url/assets/uploaded-photos : set to be used by photos and user profile images
2. http://your_applicationurl/assets/uploaded-videos: set to be used for storing videos and related files
3. http://your_applicationurl/assets/uploaded-files: set to be used for storing documents in the Files section
4. http://your_applicationurl/assets/uploaded-cms: set to be used for storing attachments

You can easily change these media servers as per your own unique requirements.