[development] Files directory on installation usability fix not quite usable. ; )

Shakur shakur at techarena.co.uk
Sun Dec 9 01:29:32 UTC 2007


If they are running multisite it would be safe to assume they can do
some tinkering with directories, we just have to document properly.
Angie Byron wrote:
> Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
>   
>> DragonWize schrieb:
>>     
>>> I don't see it as any different as the big red neon hack me sign on
>>> the file that contains your database username and password.
>>>       
>>> We still do that as a convenience and then warn the user to set the
>>> permissions back. And it is not like more work, the user is already
>>> setting permissions to write then back it would just be one more done
>>> the same way, unless you do it all manually which is always an option.
>>>       
>> This could all be solved by moving the default files directory into the
>> sites directory.
>>     
>
> I'd support this as a solution for new installations, definitely. Then there's
> only one chmod to do, and we can include the directory by default.
>
> And yeah, people who do multisite installations are going to have to do some
> more work, but they have to that anyway with settings.php. No big deal.
>
> -Angie
>
>   



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