Legacy Request: Ability to install outside of root.

[bzcomputers]

Add the ability to install outside of the root folder.

http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/f80/redirect-issue-after-uploading-when-installed-outside-forum-directory-9092/#post51340

 

[Fillip H.]

We'll look into it for future versions

As always, we can't provide any ETAs for when the next feature update will be developed (beyond those already scheduled and feature locked) or even if a certain feature will get added to that release, but it's in the system and will get looked at for every update

 

[bzcomputers]

After taking a look through the latest version 2.1.0, I don't see anything that would hinder installing this version outside of the root. I haven't seen mention of official support, but other than an a chdir to the vbdownloads.php to pick up global.php, it seems it should work.

Anything you can think of off hand that may be an issue?

 

[Fillip H.]

Possibly image paths, I don't recall if I use absolute or relative URLs in the CSS.

 

[bzcomputers]

Currently running v2.1.0 outside of root.

Here are the only changes I needed to make:

1) Add a chdir to forum directory in vbdownloads.php before both specialtemplates.php and global.php
2) Use absolute url (minus file extension) for file name in options setting
3) Edit the nav manager urls to be absolute urls

Edit: Found one bburl reference I needed to change. It was causing the bburl to be appended to the front of full url path already set in the options, just removed code in red.

dbtech/downloads/class_core.php line 811

'%downloadurl%' => [COLOR="#FF0000"]self::$vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/' .[/COLOR] self::$vbulletin->options['dbtech_downloads_link'] . '.php?do=download&downloadid=' . $download['downloadid'],