How to use block storage for existing website without delete/moving it to the block storage? my /dev/sda1 is now full, I attach a new volume like 50GB, and it already mouted in /mnt/volume… I’m using easyengine nginx to host my website. My website is located at /var/www/example.com/htdocs, and I want to use my block storage to save my wp-content that located in /var/www/example.com/htdocs/wp-content. so It will saved in block storage… what should I do? I’ve try this Link
I try this
mkdir /mnt/volume.../wp-content
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /mnt/volume.../wp-content
and edit /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default and add this to the last line
location /wp-content/ {
alias /mnt/volume.../wp-content/;
}
after that, I save it, and restart nginx service, and it got error serverctl1… can you help me how to implement this?
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@novaneviyantia Wordpress accesses the filesystem directly in order to save files—it doesn’t go through Nginx. So while Nginx will still ‘redirect’ requests to the Volume, Wordpress will save files in /var/www/html/wp-content.
You can use a symlink in order to have Wordpress save files on the Volume as well (make sure the paths are correct—I tried to guess based on your config):
# move any existing files to the Volume
sudo mv /var/www/html/wp-content/* /mnt/volume-sfo2-01/wp-content/*
# delete the old (now empty) directory
sudo rm -r /var/www/html/wp-content
# create a symlink to points to wp-content on the Volume
sudo ln -s /mnt/volume-sfo2-01/wp-content /var/www/html/wp-content
Because this is set up on the filesystem, you can also remove the Nginx alias and it would still work.
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