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Media in Forestry

Forestry CMS supports the following media options:

• Repo-based media (default)
• Cloudinary
• Amazon S3
• Netlify Large Media

Each media destination was configured through ForestryCMS's UI

Media in TinaCMS

At this time, Tina has integrations the following media solutions:

• Repo-based media
• Cloudinary
• Amazon S3
• Digital Ocean Spaces

Tina's extendability also allows dev's to create custom API-based media provider integrations.

Note: Netlify Large Media support is not planned in TinaCMS.

Repo-based media

Out of the box, TinaCMS supports repo-based media. This is configured in tina/config.js:

  export default defineConfig({
    // ...
    media: {
      tina: {
        mediaRoot: "uploads",
        publicFolder: "public",
      },
    },

The above config would source your media from /public/uploads.

Unsupported parent-directory relatives paths.

In Forestry, you could use images outside of your configured media directory:

![](../images/post-img.jpg)

Using .. in the media path isn't supported in TinaCMS.

3rd-party Media Providers

Tina supports using external media providers (E.g Cloudinary, Digital Ocean Spaces, S3, etc), however a light backend media handler needs to be setup/hosted by the user. Tina offers some helpers to make this easy. This is usually pretty simple thanks to Netlify & Vercel's serverless function support.

You can check out our 3rd-party media guides here