Can we change the default location of the settings.php

Posted by ss54 on December 24, 2012 at 6:11am

Usually the file settings.php is taken from the folder sites/default/settings.php. This is known as default behaviour. The question is: Can one changes this default location so that the file settings.php is put at another folder. If this is possible, how. Thanks a lot for any advice.

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I don't believe you can, without hacking core.

Posted by deruitern on December 27, 2012 at 11:46pm

I don't believe you can, without hacking core.

If you look at the conf_path function in bootstrap.inc, the "sites" folder is hard-coded and it parses the URL to find settings files that are not in the "default" folder.

Thanks for trying to help me

Posted by ss54 on December 28, 2012 at 7:00pm

I will look up that inc file, and I am interested in changing the location of the settings.php file even if it means changing the core file. I would appreciate it if you can help me further.