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On my local dev environment, my images are stored in (relative to server root) /sites/default/files/images/

On the server, acquia cloud implements a virtual directory and the end result is that images are stored relative to root in /files/images

In my content nodes, I'm using root-relative paths for my images. But this means any time I migrate my content between the local environment and the server, all images break.

I don't want to have to take any manual steps to change image paths every time I migrate content (I migrate content "down" from server to lcal periodically so that I am developing against "real" content).

Shouldn't there be some simpler way to configure things so that the root-relative image paths can intelligently choose the correct path based on which environment is being accessed?

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  • How exactly you embed images in content? And no, usually content is just a piece of, well, content, and cannot change easily. There are ways, of course (look for filters), but people I know would simply link folders to obtain identically - looking folder structure between dev, staging and production. Why won't you do this? Last, but most important: don't ask us what should be, ask us specific, non-speculative question.
    – Mołot
    Commented Sep 7, 2014 at 19:40

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Implement a directory redirect on your local environment's web server so that any request for /files/* gets redirected to /sites/default/files/*

For example in Apache, edit the httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName yourservername
  DocumentRoot "pathtoyourdocroot"
  Redirect /files /sites/default/files
</VirtualHost>
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