Hi, been struggling with setting up Umbraco on a development machine and test server...

Both environments connect to the same database and I use uSync to keep all my changes in git, however mediafiles are a real p.i.t.a.

I started off by adding media on my dev machine and copying over the media folder when publishing to test. Not very elegant so I tried using the rootPath and rootUrl in the filesystemproviders config. Path points to a network file share and URL to a dedicated virtual directory hosted on a media.test.mysite.com subdomain.

Surprise ... when opening the site the old media is vanished because umbraco saves the absolute path in the cmsProperty tables {'src': 'http://media.mysite.com/1041/...' }, previously the relative path when configuring the virtualRoot.

I'd like to alter the composition of the media url's in both front-and backend. Define a media_root appsetting holding the hostname, protocol and port (http://media.test.mysite.com) and prepending this to the src stuff that comes from the DB...

Any suggestions? I already tried a custom URLProvider but this only works for non-media content ... it seems :-|

Thanks! Y.