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By nickdrye - Mon 23 Feb 2015
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Is it possible to use full URLs of image files stored on webservers other than the one used by my shop installation?
ie.
http://www.SomeOtherServer.com/images/1234567890.jpg
instead of keeping a local file
'images/1234567890.jpg'
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By Paul - Thu 26 Feb 2015
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Not easily. Kartris places images in a particular place so when it displays a product, it knows exactly where to look to find the image. This means it does not have to store the names or locations of images within the database.
It would take a wholesale rewriting of the image handling to be able to use remote images.
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By nickdrye - Fri 27 Feb 2015
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Thanks, I figured that out when I came back to it a couple of hours later. I ended up writing some VBA to convert the image URLs in my CSV product data to file names and the download each image into a temp folder so that the Data tool could manage the images during a data import.
I felt it was useful to leave the post in place just in case others had the same question.
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