[FLOW3-general] 2 Installation Questions

[Christian Peters]

Hey Simon,

there was an introduction to surf on the last t3con, it can be viewed here:

http://t3con12.chaoscdn.de/T3CON12DE.Int.Automate.FLOW3.and.TYPO3.Deployment.with.Surf.mp4

Best
Chris

2012/10/29 Simon Browning <simon at seethroughweb.com>

> 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
>
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>
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> 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
>>
>>
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