Installation in a read-only environment

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Lo_Road
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Installation in a read-only environment

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Hello,

I am currently attempting to install 3.2.0 in a completely read-only environment. I have access to a separate file system that can hold all of the files that PhpBB needs to modify. Can anyone help me tell Phpbb to write everything that should go in /file, /cache etc. into a separate file system?

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Re: Installation in a read-only environment

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Thats server setup: if you work on a linux system, you can simple point those dirs to a separate physical volume
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Re: Installation in a read-only environment

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Thanks for the reply,
but I have no access to the machine my website is hosted on. I'm attempting to host this in Google app engine, so I would need a solution that's possibly an alteration of the source that allows it to point to different directories.
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I think that would be a bigger rewrite, because all internal directories of phpBB are coded as subdirectory of the root directory of phpBB

Would be easier to move to a server with full file access and write-protect all directories except those which should be writeable (see installation instructions)
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