Move Opencart Image Folder To Spaces

Hey friend,

While you can do this with s3fs, I would actually recommend using our Volumes instead. Volumes are going to have less permission issues than a fuse mount. You could rename the images folder temporarily, create a new one, and then mount the volume in that folder. So, for example, let’s say these are the variables:

• Volume: /dev/sda
• Folder: /var/www/images
• Web server user: www-data

I would run these commands, personally:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda
mv /var/www/images /var/www/images.bak
mkdir /var/www/images
mount /dev/sda /var/www/images
mv /var/www/images.bak/* /var/www/images
chown -R www-data. /var/www

Hope that helps :)

Jarland

Moving your /upload folder in OpenCart to DigitalOcean Spaces and utilizing the built-in CDN is a great way to improve your site’s performance.

After uploading your files to Spaces, you need to update OpenCart to serve these files from the new CDN URL. You can use an OpenCart extension to automatically rewrite URLs for assets to point to the CDN.

Regards