some fixeѕ and more info

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Uwe Steinmann 2018-03-14 10:26:04 +01:00
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SeedDMS allows various kinds of installations with very individual layouts
on disk. The proposed layout till version 5.1.6 was as the following:
on disc. The proposed layout till version 5.1.6 was as the following:
seeddms51x ---+--- data
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@ -22,10 +22,14 @@ SeedDMS_Lucene, SeedDMS_Preview, SeedDMS_SQLiteFTS.
This layout has disadvantages when updating the source of seeddms, because
the directories 'conf' and 'ext' has to be moved from 'seeddms-5.1.x' to
'seeddms-5.1.(x+1)'.
'seeddms-5.1.(x+1)'. 'conf' was also visible over the web unless it was
protected by an .htaccess file. The .htaccess file has been shipped, but it
is far better to keep senѕitive data out of the document root in the first
place.
The new layout mostly retains that structure but uses more soft links to place
the local data outside of 'seeddms-5.1.x' which makes updating a lot easier.
the local data outside of 'seeddms-5.1.x' which makes updating a lot easier
and moves the configuration out of the document root.
As MS Windows does not support soft links, this change will only apply to Linux/Unix
systems. The new layout is the following: