Comments on: Host Images of WordPress Blog in a Subdomain for Better Speed

By: Bobby C.

Bobby C. — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:08:34 +0000

Hello and Thank You for this great post. I followed your directions and it seems some of my images are updated and working and others will not work. I have even tried uploading the images from pc and replacing them with the updated image and they will not appear. I am lost and could certainly use someones advice or help. My pages are a mess now and I dread manually recreating everything. I’m sure there is a painless way to fix my problem. If anyone with more database experience would give me a hand, it will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for any support.

By: Stuart Edwards

Stuart Edwards — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:29:51 +0000

Hi, thanks for this post.

Been really struggling trying to set this up with my host (123 Reg).

They are basically saying that what I’m trying to achieve (which is what this post is about) is impossible.

I’ve purchased a subdomain from them, and when I follow the guidelines set out in this article, I get a SQL error message

“The this error pos up at the top : #1146 – Table ‘aminearlythereyetco_837484_whatever..’ doesn’t exist”

They have provided me with a work around, but I’m not sure whether it’s the right thing to do… this is what they have proposed..

“You can load you images into a folder on your hosting package and make that url (aminearlythereyet.com/folder/photo.jpg or aminearlythereyet.com/folder) live. Then you will have to create a framed fprwarding rule in order to forward your subdomain to that specific url by following the steps from this link: How do I add 302 (Temporary) Web forwarding?
Also the media.aminearlythereyet.com subdomain will have to be pointed to the webforwarding IP address 94.136.40.82 by following the next steps:
log into your control panel, select the aminearlythereyet.com domain from the drop-down list and click “Manage”
click on “Manage DNS” button an then on the “Advanced DNS” tab
point the “media” record to 94.136.40.82 instead of 94.136.40.103
Please note that any DNS change needs time to propagate 24-48 hours. This way when you will access media.aminearlythereyet.com you will be forwarded to aminearlythereyet.com/folder/photo.jpg and the url in the web browser will be media.aminearlythereyet.com.”

Any advice would be really helpful. Thank you very much!
Stuart

By: Blaine

Blaine — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:36:01 +0000

Thanks for the detailed instructions.
Is there any reason to keep checked, “Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders”? I figure the less folder names in the path, the better for SEO.

By: Fren

Fren — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:21:30 +0000

Very informative tutorial. But I have heard that if you save uploaded contents on a subdomain, cache plug-ins (W3 Edge Cache, WP Super Cache, etc.) won’t work. Is this solved already?

By: Daniel Watson

Daniel Watson — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:26:51 +0000

Really great tips.
Thanks for share.

By: subodh

subodh — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:37:23 +0000

This is a great trick and you have explained it well. Thanks so much!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:15:00 +0000

Did you made the changes at your WordPress settngs > media?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:14:00 +0000

I was made all like in this post, and everything work ok, but i can’t upload in new subdomain. How to solve that?

By: Amar

Amar — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:19:17 +0000

Hi, I am facing problem with CDN. Now my images are not showing in post. Please help me ? I am using rackspace CDN.

By: Amar

Amar — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:03:25 +0000

HI. My problem has been solved. Thanks. I must say your writing is simple and complete and I really appreciate that. Most of tips or tricks available on net are half written or sometimes i do not get idea that what writer asking me to do. Labnol is one of finest technical blog but while you read-how to setup image folder for wordpress, you lost some where because of half written article. Please continue simple and complete writing. Thanks

By: Amar

Amar — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:15:43 +0000

Hi Thanks for tips. its really cool.I have configured everything as mention in your post. I am not having issue with old images but while i uploaded new images it went to old wp-content/uploads directory. I would like to mention here that i have configured ” Full URL path to files” as instructed in post. While full url path is set then why images are getting upload in default directory? Please help me.

By: Shbohit

Shbohit — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:23:19 +0000

Gud one! but I am serving my images via CDN

By: zaadu

zaadu — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:01:33 +0000

I wasn’t aware of this tip..I will give it a try and let you know

By: umang

umang — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:39:36 +0000

Nice post.
Well, i create a subdomain for image hosting, like images.Google.com. How to prevent access the image hosted subdomain?

By: Chicago Divorce Lawyer Dave Wolkowitz

Chicago Divorce Lawyer Dave Wolkowitz — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:08:02 +0000

Excellent simple tip.

By: Raj @ Blogging Tips & Tricks

Raj @ Blogging Tips & Tricks — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:22:31 +0000

Thanks for the detailed guide.. i am planning to change my webhost next month and decided to move images to a sub domain.., mu query is whether to host images in the same web server or use a CDN network for hosting images??

By: Charles D

Charles D — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:17:42 +0000

I’ve been looking for an idea like this. I was going back & forth between hosting images on the domain, and using a image hosting service. I’m giving this a try next, thanks for the tip! :)

By: Rahul

Rahul — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:12:47 +0000

Very nice post dear

thanks for the help… :)

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:32:08 +0000

Thanks Tanmay, this was something my brother asked me to look into. He was asking me if WordPress was capable of using photos he currently has in some Google-based storage (I think he meant Google Docs, but I’m not sure). So when I found this blog post I thought I’d at least ask and see.

By: Tanmay

Tanmay — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:25:51 +0000

@Andre: If you really want to host your images in different domain Try some CDN like Amazon : http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:26:24 +0000

Yes, my apologies, I generally refer to WordPress as WP, makes it easier to write.. Thanks for the prompt response, I guess I’ll have to keep hunting for a plugin to do this then. I’m sure it must be possible somehow, I just haven’t found out how yet…

By: Tanmay

Tanmay — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:40:58 +0000

WP means WordPress? If so then this tutorial is completely working for WordPress. This tutorial only allows you to host images to a subdomain of your main domain.

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:49:59 +0000

Hi Tanmay. I’m not sure if this is possible with WP, but if read/write permissions are not an issue, could this method be used to get WP to store images on a completely different server through a different URL?

By: rijans

rijans — Mon, 23 May 2011 12:52:23 +0000

Hi nice post. Recently i’m thinking to do it.

By: Li-An

Li-An — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:09:27 +0000

What about SEO ? I manage a blog based on images and accept hotlinking as Google count them as valid link to my site. What will happen if I move them to subdomain ?

By: Decio

Decio — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:36:35 +0000

@Ankur
You can host you entire site for free on google app engine. Search for google app engine static and follow this tutorial:
http://www.labnol.org/internet/host-website-on-google-app-engine/18801/

By: Ankur

Ankur — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:21:36 +0000

Hi Tanmay i currently have a website hosted on server that are almost private so no problem regarding speed and other issue but there is limitation regarding webspace i have only 1 GB, is there a way to host my files on different host (No CDN service like amazon) i mean like free webhosting out there, is there a way to use them..

By: Tanmay

Tanmay — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:33:27 +0000

Sorry Ankit. I forgot to update the article. Go to Settings > Media instead of Miscellaneous. I also updated this post. Now follow and let me know if you are able to upload your images to your subdomain.

By: Ankit

Ankit — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:08:54 +0000

my wordpress version is 3.1.1

By: Ankit

Ankit — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:07:49 +0000

Hey tanmay i am still unable to upload the images on my blog as it is uploading on my old domain. i have change the required settings exactly as you told. although now my blog is calling all the images from my new domain but unable to upload it on new domain.
if possible can you please tell me how to change settings from functions.php what i need to change in functions.php so that all my images uploads from my new domain………