[FLOW3-general] 2 Installation Questions

[Simon Browning]

Hi Robert, thanks for responding.

I haven't seen anything about Surf yet.  Is it similar to the Extension 
Manager? Will it be possible to upgrade the Neos/Flow core files from 
within the cms (similar to how wordpress updates are done), or will it 
still be necessary to update files through the console?

I'm trying to imagine what the process will be like in future/what will 
be our sales pitch to clients.

Thank you.

Simon




On 2012-10-26 2:57 AM, Robert Lemke wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On 22.10.2012, at 14:56, Simon Browning <simon at seethroughweb.com> wrote:
>
>> Not sure if this is the correct forum, but now after doing a couple of installs I have some questions about Neos installations in the future.
>>
>> 1.  With TYPO3 cms, we have our servers set up so that the TYPO3 source files are stored in a central location, then each individual site/hosting account is symlinked to this location.  In this way we're able to have dozens of TYPO3 clients operating from a single set of source files.
>>
>> Is this going to be possible with Neos?
>
> yes, it's possible to share the Packages/ directory, but not recommended. If you want to upgrade just a single package or the whole distribution, you easily run into trouble. So, unless disk space is really a concern, I recommend to have one distribution per site / application.
>
> In slightly bigger projects, you'll also want to deploy new versions with TYPO3 Surf – and that requires a dedicated code base anyway.
>
>> 2. Modifying the vhosts configuration is often not possible on shared hosting servers, will there eventually be a way to setup Neos where one doesn't have to point the vhost to the /web folder?
>
>
> you can set the environment variable in your .htaccess file. If you need to switch between two contexts, you're currently out of luck. But you could add some simple code into your index.php which checks a certain GET parameter. We don't offer that solution by default for security reasons.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert
>