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[ThisGuyIKnow]

Hello everyone,

First I would like to say that Etomite is definitely one of the best CMS's I've ever installed, configured, and worked with. I've considered and installed many others: Plone, Drupal, phpcms, Sitellite, CMS Made Simple and others.

I have installed Etomite via an Apache alias because I have many other test installations of various open source software that I keep sorted in this manner. I noticed that the Etomite File Manager points to my Apache DocumentRoot which is a totally separate branch of my file system from my Etomite installation root. I looked in the etomite_system_settings database table and noticed that filemanager_path has a value of ''. (nothing) So, I could obviously set this to just about anything, but I was wondering what it's supposed to be. I'm guesssing it is intended to point to the Etomite installation root?

And yes, I am aware you can change this via the Manager instead of via mysql from the shell.

Sweet CMS!

[cathode]

Mine is like this:
/home/youraccount/public_html/assets

So yours would be like this:
/home/youraccount/public_html/some_folder/assets

Sometimes, if I like to tighten control of where my site users can upload files, I'll limit the file manager to a docs folder like this:

/home/youraccount/public_html/assets/docs

Of course your base path may be different that what I have, so just be sure to get that part right.

[ThisGuyIKnow]

Genuine thanks for the info. So to answer my question, (I appreciate the extra "what you think my dir path might be tutorial", but wasn't necessary ) the assets folder is what most "vanilla" installations would point this to? And by a "vanilla" installation, I mean installing Etomite into the Apache DocumentRoot instead of an aliased directory like I did or a user alias directory folder like you did.

cathode, on Feb 9 2008, 12:28 AM, said:

Mine is like this:
/home/youraccount/public_html/assets

So yours would be like this:
/home/youraccount/public_html/some_folder/assets

[cathode]

ThisGuyIKnow, on Feb 8 2008, 06:53 PM, said:

Genuine thanks for the info. So to answer my question, (I appreciate the extra "what you think my dir path might be tutorial", but wasn't necessary ) the assets folder is what most "vanilla" installations would point this to? And by a "vanilla" installation, I mean installing Etomite into the Apache DocumentRoot instead of an aliased directory like I did or a user alias directory folder like you did.

To be honest I have been pointing it to the assets directory for so long I forget which directory the vanilla installation uses - just point it where it's the most useful.

[ThisGuyIKnow]

cathode, on Feb 9 2008, 02:45 AM, said:

just point it where it's the most useful.

Sounds good. Thanks again.