Image URL specified from base site url doesn't permit to work with 2 different drupal installation

Hi all,

I find out a way to my problem. So i just want to expose it in case it may helps others...
In the meantime i have added ckfinder for browsing my images.

So the idea is to use a virtual name in your images path and then use RewriteRule in .htaccess to set the right path, so when
you change your server from local to production you just have to update the .htaccess without updating your DB :

1) Configure default path images in ckfinder :
- Go to Administer>Site configuration>CKeditor
- Edit your ckeditor profile (in my conf it is advanced in which i enabled ckfinder) and go to file explorer parameters
- Set the path for uploaded path like this : virtualname/%f/ - where 'virtualname' will be the virtual part of your url and %f - Drupal file system path where the files are stored (sites/default/files).

Now when you will add with ckfinder an image, it will use virtualname/sites/default/files/yourImage.jpg as path copied in the src attribut.

2) Edit your .htaccess located in your root drupal directory and add:

- If your drupal is installed directly in your root site, use:

RewriteRule ^(.*)virtualname(.*)$ http://www.YourSite.com/$2 [L,QSA,NC]

- If your drupal is installed in a sub-directory use:
RewriteRule ^(.*)virtualname(.*)$ http://www.YourSite.com/SUB-DIRECTORY-NAME/$2 [L,QSA,NC]

So when you change directory installation you just have to update http://www.YourSite.com/SUB-DIRECTORY-NAME/ in order to rewrite correctly your images path.