[Typo3] What would you expect of a TYPO3 webhost?

[Boris Senker]

Ok, here is what we came up with thus far for the preinstalled TYPO3 
variant:

- managed to make a common typo3 source running under suPHP without 
permission issues,
- made a unified typo3 source with a default set of global extensions to use 
(default extension set will grow)
- made a default localconf.php for vhosts
- users can install local extensions, can't install global ones.
- made a default vhost-specific directory structure that will be later used 
for an automatic installer we will make.
- made media filder into vhost instead of symlinking it, so they can install 
PHP scripts into media/scripts folder of their own. Otherwise would be 
unsafe and anyway suPHP wouldn't allow such scripts to run from a non-user 
owned folder.


To do:

- decide on the install tool policy - probably to disable it fully after we 
perform an inital setup
- disable TYPO3 output compression completely - OR - disable mod_deflate for 
TYPO3 installs - subject to change
- make an automatic installer for vhost that will populate the vhost's 
directory with the proper subdirectory structure, files and symlinks


All here + some fine-tuning will enable us to provide a properly 
preinstalled TYPO3 per vhost in less than 10 minutes of our work per vhost.


Any other suggestions / comments / corrections ?


Thanks,



Boris Senker

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