From 96fe64e393e0956d3f0b9de4afa3971cb1169b26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: cweiske Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 07:32:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] explain people how to setup their installation to get rid of www/ in URLs. git-svn-id: https://semanticscuttle.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/semanticscuttle/trunk@644 b3834d28-1941-0410-a4f8-b48e95affb8f --- doc/INSTALL.txt | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- doc/UPGRADE.txt | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.txt b/doc/INSTALL.txt index 1c25b2d..b2dd3b2 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL.txt +++ b/doc/INSTALL.txt @@ -22,4 +22,46 @@ Installation instructions For example, run > chmod 0777 cache on the shell. -5. Set the www/ directory as document root in your web server. +5. Set the www/ directory as document root in your web server, + restart the web server. + + +Ugly www directory in URLs +-------------------------- +In case point 5 of the installation instructions cannot be put into +practice by you because you are not able to change the web server +configuration, you are not lost! There is a way to get rid of +www/ in your URL! + +Imagine following directory layout: + /home/customer123/ + www/ + subdomain1/ + subdomain2/ + subdomain3/ + +Create a SemanticScuttle directory somewhere outside www if possible +and put all directories except www/ in there. Move all files and +directories from www/ into your subdomain directory. Then modify +subdomain/www-header.php to include the correct file path. + +The new directory layout should look that way: + /home/customer123/ + semanticscuttle/ + doc/ + data/ + src/ + www/ + subdomain1/ + subdomain2/ (this is the semanticscuttle subdomain) + about.php + admin.php + .. + www-header.php + subdomain3/ + +Now open www-header.php and replace + require_once '../src/SemanticScuttle/header.php'; +with + require_once '../../semanticscuttle/src/SemanticScuttle/header.php'; + diff --git a/doc/UPGRADE.txt b/doc/UPGRADE.txt index 3e23640..371c302 100644 --- a/doc/UPGRADE.txt +++ b/doc/UPGRADE.txt @@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ API: The method signatures of addBookmark() and updateBookmark() changed due to the addition of the $short parameter. +We got complaints about the changed file structure, and people told +us that they just cannot set the document root to www/, because they +are not admins on their http server. This is a valid point, and +with 0.96.0 you can easily change it. See INSTALL.txt for more information +about moving www/. + From version 0.94 to 0.95 --------------------------