can thumbs be placed different from the ee installing site?

[m.f100]

As title,
Can thumbs/microthumbs be placed different from the ee installing site?

I install EE 1.22 at web A, and everything is okay when I set thumbs path at the same web(A). But as I tried to point thumb path to the web B(and left the relative path blank), the thumbs became invisible...

thanks in advance

[Pekka]

Relative paths are used by the editor to make thumb listings and directory listings (this is a PHP restriction). URL's are used by the public side of EE.

So, you can set EE use thumbs and microthumbs from external server(s) but the editor needs to have them in local server, too.

To make directory listings work with external servers I'd need to use ftp which would mean a slowdown of those listings. I'm thinking about it if there's a reason to code that feature in.

[m.f100]

thanks, now I understand.