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

[Dawid Pacholczyk]

In my opinion you really shouldn`t mess up with hardcoded paths. Why 
won`t you just redirect it on apache ? You can use mod_proxy. There 
won`t be any problem with paths, css, js, images etc.

Beside I can`t belive that the path in page browser is so important :) 
I`m sure that if you`ll give possibility to log in to BE with 
mysite/admin path (using mod_proxy) your end users won`t even notice 
if/when path will change on typo3.

Best regards,
Dawid Pacholczyk

On 27.12.2010 22:32, Christoph Stadler wrote:
> so i did a batch find and replace on the whole install folder with
> bbedit, just wildly replacing "typo3/" with "admin/" ... it changed
> stuff in 388 files (yes i know this is not such a good idea but it was
> worth a try to get a feel of how this goes)
>
> the site seems to work without problems and the backend is all there and
> works normally over http://mysite.com/admin/ instead of
> http://mysite.com/typo3/
>
> the only problem i have now is that the backend login page is messed up,
> login still works but it is completely out of shape, there is some CSS
> there but everything is cramped together in the top left corner of the
> page and it doesn't look anything like it should ... i also can't
> correct this with the extension chloginskin which i usually use ... and
> i can't really figure out where this is coming from
>
> so it's not all bad but this is not a viable solution since there are
> changes now hardcoded in too many files to keep track of