Layout of installation ======================= SeedDMS allows various kinds of installations with very individual layouts on disc. The proposed layout till version 5.1.6 was as the following: seeddms51x ---+--- data | +--- pear | +--- seeddms-5.1.x | +--- www -> seeddms-5.1.x 'data' contains all document files, the sqlite database (if used), the full text data, the log files, and the cached preview images. 'pear' contains all PEAR packages including the four SeedDMS packages SeedDMS_Core, SeedDMS_Lucene, SeedDMS_Preview, SeedDMS_SQLiteFTS. 'seeddms-5.1.x' are the sources of seeddms and 'www' being a link on it. This layout has disadvantages when updating the source of seeddms, because the directories 'conf' and 'ext' had to be moved from 'seeddms-5.1.x' to '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 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. MS Windows users just skip all the soft links and set seeddms-5.1.x as the document root. The new layout is the following: seeddms51x ---+--- data --+-- log | | | +-- cache | | | +-- 1048576 | | | +-- ... | +--- pear | +--- conf | +--- seeddms-5.1.x | +--- seeddms -> seeddms-5.1.x | +--- www --+-- inc -> ../seeddms/inc | +-- op -> ../seeddms/op | +-- out -> ../seeddms/out | +-- views -> ../seeddms/views | +-- controllers -> ../seeddms/controllers | +-- styles -> ../seeddms/styles | +-- languages -> ../seeddms/languages | +-- webdav -> ../seeddms/webdav | +-- restapi -> ../seeddms/restapi | +-- pdfviewer -> ../seeddms/pdfviewer | +-- index.php -> ../seeddms/index.php | +-- ext In order to convert to this layout you need to do the following in the seeddms51x directory (replace the 'x' in '5.1.x' with the correct number): ln -s seeddms-5.1.x seeddms mv www/conf . mv seeddms-5.1.x/ext www cd www rm inc op out views controllers styles languages webdav restapi pdfviewer index.php ln -s ../seeddms/inc ln -s ../seeddms/op ln -s ../seeddms/out ln -s ../seeddms/views ln -s ../seeddms/controllers ln -s ../seeddms/styles ln -s ../seeddms/languages ln -s ../seeddms/webdav ln -s ../seeddms/restapi ln -s ../seeddms/pdfviewer ln -s ../seeddms/index.php