Re: [users@httpd] Override a File to Same Name in Another Directory

2016-03-13 Thread Ron Wingfield
Actually, I've already grep'ed through the code (grep -r "configuration.php" /www/joomla3 > grep.out); found 179 occurrences (lines of code). And as I've mentioned, there are currently 58 parameters in the configure.php file. This would be an ambitious project. In consideration that I'm not

Re: [users@httpd] Override a File to Same Name in Another Directory

2016-03-13 Thread Marat Khalili
Why is Joomla designed this way? Seems that yet another MySQL DB table could have been designed into the system and the configuration extracted from the same, rather than reading the content of a configuration.php file. What stops you from implementing configuration.php the way you describe:

Re: [users@httpd] Override a File to Same Name in Another Directory

2016-03-13 Thread Ron Wingfield
First, thanks for your quick reply. I suspected there was no “magic” in Apache to accomplish my task. My concern is the fact that the inclusion of configure.php is embedded in the application system, which by-the-way is . . .Joomla. Aside from being a totally php based application (there are

Re: [users@httpd] Override a File to Same Name in Another Directory

2016-03-12 Thread Marat Khalili
If you want client requests to http://your.site/config.php be served by ./parent/config.php , then the answer is yes -- I'd start with mod_rewrite for instance. If config.php is invoked by PHP, not by Apache, then you cannot fix it using Apache features -- you really need to change that

[users@httpd] Override a File to Same Name in Another Directory

2016-03-12 Thread Ron Wingfield
I don’t know if and how this can be accomplished. Scenario: Two directories, parent and child. parent is in a virtual host “container”. child is a symbolic link to an application default core distribution directory (php objects). ./parent/child contains a default config.php file. ./parent