[TYPO3-english] Renaming the typo3/ directory ... problems abound

[Christoph Stadler]

Hi Steffen,

yes i think this would be a great feature, ultimately wouldn't it be 
nice to just have a setting in the install tools general settings where 
you just define the name of the typo3 folder, just like you define the 
name of the site ?

The reason i would like to do this is that it's just nicer for the end 
user, and especially when you have editors that don't have full admin 
rights .. if there is only one client it's easy to explain to them why 
the typo3/ link is there, but for most editors it's completely 
irrelevant which technology is running the website and an adress like 
/admin or /editor just makes more sense ... i think it would also 
probably be a good security feature that not all backends can be acessed 
via /typo3, but then again i don't know anything bout that really :-)

i would gladly provide 'patches' for this but to be honest i'm 
completely in the dark as to how i would do this, although i have been 
using typo3 for many years i have never participated in the source 
development and have no clue about CVS, bugtrackers, patches, diffs and 
the like ... could you maybe point me to some good documentation 
ressources where i could learn about these things ? I would gladly start 
contributing but don't really know where/how to get started ...

i will play around with this for a bit doing find/replaces with BBedit 
and syncing folders via FTP and see how that goes and will report back ...

Kind Regards

Christoph

On 12/27/10 5:25 PM, Steffen Gebert wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
>> i was trying to use a different backend directory name so that my BE
>> users can acces the BE via mywebsite/admin instead of mywebsite/typo3
>
> I'm sure, many people would like to this.. I was pretty sure that it
> can't work perfectly. Could you please open a bug report and report all
> your findings there?
> Also replacing the constants in the TYPO3 sources is not a really usable
> way.
>
> Maybe we can fix the harder things for 4.6 and the small bugs for
> 4.4/4.5. If you can provide patches for some issues, it would be great!
>
> Kind regards
> Steffen
>