[Typo3-linux] Apache/PHP vs FTP user

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Bjarke,

On 11/30/05, Bjarke Meier <bm at itu.dk> wrote:

>  It's not an option to change the server configuration - with the _eventual_
> exception being small changes. Is there any solution to my problem?

Yes. I would install something like PHPShell and unpack ALL TYPO3
files through it so the resulting TYPO3 files would be owned by uid
99, not 717. Then everything would work fine, including installing
extensions from TER.

> Is it
> possible to decompress (how/what's the format?) the t3x files and manually
> transfer them to the server using FTP and will there be any additional
> requirements to this strategy (manually entering data into the db, modifying
> files etc)?

If you want to keep uploading stuff through FTP I would create a local
TYPO3 copy on your computer, install the extension from TER there,
upload the files (they are going to end up either in typo3/ext or
typo3_conf/ext, then update the database through Install tool.

t3x is basically a serialized PHP array that contains all the files.
Compressed version is the same put through gzip. Download an
uncompressed t3x and open in notepad for example.

I would say PHPShell way is more feasible since it also takes care of
the updates and generally is less hassle.

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Dimitri Tarassenko