#725 Configuration file outside PGV folder tree

[miron]

Can the configuration file be located outside the PGV
folder tree, like the index and media folders? This
would make version upgrades a lot easier.

[Laie Techie]

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How would PGV know where to look?

[Christophe B.]

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I suggest to rename default file as : config.dist.php
On first launch, when no config.php is found a new one is created using config.dist.php

[Laie Techie]

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opus27, the googlemap module is a good example on how this should be handled. First, include the default config file. Secondly, include the real config file if it exists. This makes it easy to add new config options in newer PGV versions without losing the old configuration.

[John Finlay]

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I think that this is probably the best solution that we have. One concern I have is doing that would require that the entire PGV directory be writable in order to automatically copy the default config to the user config. Unless we instruct the user to make a copy of the default config file during installation.

--John