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Original Post: Shared hosting and local PEAR directory
Feed Title: Syntax Framework
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We've rolled out SyntaxCMS on a handful of low cost, shared hosting providers and found our initial experiences more frustrating than they had to be. Of course, we expected a number of difficulties, primarliy because of the directory structure we assume. By default syntax cms expects:
+ Your Site Directory
- private
- public (document root)
The public folder contains all the files that Apache serves to the public, while the private directory contains all our code and configuration settings safely outside of the document root. On most cheap ISPs, you can only put you files in your web root and that requires a lot of tinkering.
Another limitation is not being able to add files to your host's PEAR directory. Since SyntaxCMS depends on Pear_Cache, this is problematic if your ISP doesn't provide it. To make life easier, we've added a private/lib/ext/PEAR directory that is added automatically to your include_path. If you need to include a pear library, extract the archive into that directory and SyntaxCMS will find it.
This is currently in the latest CVS versions but a new release should be just around the corner.
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