Any files modified in normal sugar use?

[BrianSteffens]

Are any files modified in normal sugar use in the /var/www directory (apart from the cache)? Are there configuration files that can be changed or is that all stored in the database? Any session information? Is there a special directory holding such 'variable' data or is it all spread out?

Thank you

[julian]

Hello Brian,

Unfortunately, there are quite a few places where Sugar will write temporary (or not-so-temporary) data. These are the directories that are required as writable during installation. Off the top of my head, I believe the list is...

./cache/*
./custom/*
./data/upload/*
./modules/*

There are also a few files in the main Sugar directory that should be left writable, including sugarcrm.log, log4php.properties, and config.php. I found this list by searching through ./install/checkSystem.php and looking for calls to make_writable().

You may make configuration changes in config.php, although many of those settings are exposed in the GUI (click Admin on the top-right corner, then System Settings).

Where session information is stored depends on your PHP settings. In your system's php.ini file, you'll find a setting named 'session.save_path' -- by default on most Linux installations, the save_path is /tmp. On Windows, I've seen C:/WINDOWS/TEMP/ used.

[BrianSteffens]

Perfect, thanks very much!