Storage Medium
Fanray stores your uploaded images either on the File System or Azure Blob Storage, this can be configured in appsettings.json.
"AppSettings": {
// Media file storage, "FileSystem" or "AzureBlob"
// "FileSystem": the files uploaded will be stored on the file system
// "AzureBlob": the files uploaded will be stored in Azure Blob Storage
"MediaStorageType": "FileSystem",
// File upload folder
// For FileSystem, it's a folder created in wwwroot
// For AzureBlob, it's a container created in your Azure storage account
"MediaContainerName": "media"
},
"ConnectionStrings": {
// Azure Blob Storage connection string
// When in dev, I recommend using Azure Storage Emulator https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-emulator
// It's installed as part of the Azure SDK, windows > search "azure storage emulator" to start it,
// When deploy to Azure, create this key with real connection string in your App Service > App settings > Connection strings
// section, as this value will be overriden by that one.
// Tip: you can use Azure Storage Explorer to manage local or remote azure storages https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/
"BlobStorageConnectionString": "UseDevelopmentStorage=true"
},For file System, all files will be saved in the wwwroot > media folder.
I recommend Blob Storage when running on Azure, and you can experiment it locally. The connection string value UseDevelopmentStorage=true is used for local blob storage, it’s a free Microsoft tool you can install Azure Storage Explorer.
File Path and Name
The specific path structure is application specific. For the Blog application, it uses the following convention {app}/{year}/{month}/{sizePath}, for example https://localhost:44381/media/blog/2019/06/md/autumn.jpg.
The file name preserves the original file name, and if there is file name collision a new file name is created by attaching hyphen and a number, see SEO for details.