Magento – WYSIWYG media directory contents removed

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Yesterday a client of mine on Magento Community had all of their media from the /media/wysiwyg/ directory deleted. We assumed human error. Then today, another client on Magento Enterprise had the same thing happen. These are hosted on different servers, on different accounts, with different Magento versions. It's quite the coincidence, so I'm concerned that something sinister might be happening here, such as an unpatched vulnerability.

If you look at the Insert Image… screen on CMS pages, there isn't a way to delete the entire contents of the "Storage Root" folder. So I'm not actually sure how an Admin could have even accidentally deleted the entire contents of this directory without going folder to folder and deleting each one.

Have any of you seen this happen before?

Best Answer

Please change this setting and check

Admin->System->Configuration->General(Content Management)->WYSIWYG Options->Use Static URLs for Media Content in WYSIWYG for Catalog

Change this to "Yes".

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To use a separate domain, you need to take advantage of Store Views. In System > Configuration, the select box in the upper right-hand corner defaults is where you select what Store View you are configuring. The default is Default Config, which is applied to all store views and the admin (provided that the specific store view does not override the more general/global setting).

Therefore, if you set the Base media url here, that change will be applied to admin AND your store views. I would recommend selecting your store view and making the change there, as that will have no effect on the admin scope and thus it should not break the WYSIWYG editor.

Magento – Accessing files at media directory

It depends from where you want to call that access from; there's 2 possibilities:

from within the Magento Administration - say, a CMS page or a Block. There, you can refer to the 'media' directory via

from a template-file (phtml)

refer to the skin directory:

<img src="<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl('images/filename.jpg')?>"

refer to the media directory:

<?php echo  Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_MEDIA); ?>

There's also plenty of sources:

See Magento-Forum or stanleytips.com for starters

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