Where does Joomla store article images?

Question

Where in the Joomla directory can I look to find images stored in articles?

Answer 1

By default images uploaded are stored in the %root%/images directory, however, images may be stored in subdirectories of the images folder. The native editor and Joomla Content Editor (JCE, a commonly used editor for Joomla!) will only allow you to insert images from the images folder and subfolders into articles. It is possible to insert images from elsewhere in the %root% folder by directly editing the img tag in the article's code, but this is not best practice.

*If using FTP, %root% may be /public_HTML/.