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I’ve been happy to see the move to more a more flexible EE setup with the introduction of the upload_preferences config setting and, soon, the ability for us to keep our third_party folder wherever we’d like.

I’ve been exploring some options to make EE more secure lately and I was just experimenting with dictionary.txt.  It seems that it is required for this file to be placed in the /system/expressionengine/config folder.  Unfortunately, that also means we have to remember to move it when we upgrade.

Is there any workaround for this so we can actually declare the file path instead of just the name of the file?

Hi Ben,

Thank you for using the ExpressionEngine forums.

I am happy to hear you are loving the changes our awesome Devs are making to ExpressionEngine.

This is a non-supported, non standard idea. I moved dictionary.txt somewhere else on the filesystem and then used a symlink in the config directory. In the case of an upgrade the symlink should be left alone. I gave this a run on my sandbox, and it’s working for me. Just a thought.

I suggest making a Feature Request on this one. It sounds like a good idea.

Cheers!

Thanks Shane.  I’ve added the feature request:
http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/210200/

Hi Ben,

That’s awesome! People like you are making ExpressionEngine better and better!

Looking forward to your next post!

Cheers!