Advice needed - Storing images

Hello all,
I'm developing e-commerce application, and I have dilema where to store product photographs.
When I started learning struts and servlets/jsp, I stored photographs as BLOB in MySQL database, and hadnt any problems to do it this way.
For administrator purposes, I created admin interface. Administrator was able to insert new products into database, and in that case inserting product photos was implemented using form file, uploading photos directly from his local computer as BLOB object.
On the other hand, this system will probably damage the performance of web appliacation, so the idea I like more at the moment is using hypelinks.
My problem with hypelinks is - where to store photos? Photographs probably have to be stored somewhere on server, but in that case I would have to give some privilegies to administrator of web site and to allow him to access the server, and I dont want to do that.
Am I missing something here?
Thanks in advance,
Djordje

Thanks for your response.
I don't think it has anything to do with '/' or '\' though.
My directories structure is following:
Web Pages
- META-INF
- WEB-INF
- images - this is the destination I would like to store my images
- etc, etc
In my NetBeans project I have following folders:
'build', 'conf', 'dist', 'nbproject', 'src', 'test' and 'web',
and after execution of my upload action, images are stored in 'build' folders, which has following structure:
-build
--web
---META-INF
---WEB-INF
---images
---etc, etc
Obviously I would like to store them in my 'web' folder, but just cant get there.
I hope this clears the picture about my problem bit more.

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