layout: default title: Base URL

Base URL

It's common to route all images under the path /img/. However, since Glide maps image request paths directly to the image source paths, you would have to have an /img/ folder in your source location as well. For example:

'http://example.com/img/kayaks.jpg' => '/path/to/source/img/kayaks.jpg'
'http://example.com/img/users/jonathan.jpg' => '/path/to/source/img/users/jonathan.jpg'

Since this isn't ideal, Glide allows you to define a base_url which is omitted from the source path.

Set the base URL

<?php

// Set using factory
$server = League\Glide\ServerFactory::create([
    'base_url' => '/img/',
]);

// Set using setter method
$server->setBaseUrl('/img/');

With the base URL configured, the new image source paths will no longer include /img/.

'http://example.com/img/kayaks.jpg' => '/path/to/source/kayaks.jpg'
'http://example.com/img/users/jonathan.jpg' => '/path/to/source/users/jonathan.jpg'