Online Store Folder Name - Really???

[jxm28788]

Just playing with the V11 demo, and during the network settings it asks for the online store folder name (default actinic)... really??? are you kidding?

We've been fudging the default location to the root since v7, I can't believe this hasn't been fixed yet. ok, so you can give it a different name - but do we really need a sub directory here at all?

Is there still a fudge to just remove the sub-directory altogether and have all the file in the root? The v7 'fix' required messing about with the network settings in MS Access, we don't still have to do that do we?

Not a good start actinic, I hope at least some of the other annoying things about v7 have been fixed...

[Chunkford]

When you have a very large site and try view the actinic folder via FTP it can take ages for files to show up (or it could even bomb out), thus making the possibility of logging in a PITA if the files are stored on the root of the server.
Placing the shop files in a sub folder allows you to log in freely and access other areas of your server e.g. blog, forum, etc, or even use a another piece of software for the front end (like actinic do on their site) more easily.

Admittedly it's feel like a quick solution back in the day, and it's probably best, if they were to work on it, to separate the images, scripts etc from the main html files. But as it stands it's a quick and simple way organise your server.

[jxm28788]

Sure, but in reality it's not the actual root. In my case I just want the file in the httpdocs directory (a subdirectory off the main root, that is somehow the morphed into the root of the, well, http documents).

What I mean is I want my URLs to look like

http://www.mydomain.com/index.html

not

http://www.mydomain.com/somestupiddirectory/index.html

because the files would be in httpdocs (not httpdocs/somestupiddirectory) the issue you mention would not occur.

[Chunkford]

In your case that's fine but you will still need to go through the httpdocs to get access to other subfolder or files. If you have a large number of files within httpdocs (the www root) this would make it very frustrating to make simple changes to other areas.
Also some hosting do not have httpdocs and you log straight to the root of the httpdocs folder or public_html folder or what ever it is.