.smilies folder location

[txspaderz]

Would it be possible to move the .smilies folder that is created by the HTML editor to the .cpanel folder in /home/<user>/? We see numerous tickets a week asking if their cPanel has been hacked because they see this .smilies folder in FTP / File Manager.

Anyone else seeing complaints / concerns with the .smilies folder?

[Infopro]

Where do you see a .smilies folder at exactly?

[cPanelTristan]

When editing a file in cPanel > File Manager and choosing to use the HTML Editor on the file, if you then select to insert a smiley, you get this folder (I just tested it on my server to ensure the proper spelling and location of the folder):

/home/user/public_html/.smileys

The feature request is to move the .smileys folder that the HTML Editor in File Manager creates from /home/user/public_html/.smileys to /home/user/.cpanel/.smileys so people won't see it in public_html location.

[chaloupe]

It is a must!!!

The .smileys folder is for the file manager html editor and it should not appeared in the public_html of any of my customers.

Customer just panic and open tickets left & right!

[RVirtue]

cPanelTristan has it right, although the HTML editor creates that .smileys folder in the user's web root upon usage regardless of whether or not the user actually requests any smiley insertion into a file being edited.

The unannounced appearance of a dotted folder name under the web root does tend to worry some users. I was one of them before discovering the source. Frankly, the need for cPanel's HTML editor to have its own set of smilies at all would seem at least as doubtful as its need for any other "built-in" store of images. But, if it absolutely must create a folder in the user's web root for that purpose, it should certainly make the user aware of what it's doing and preferably make it optional.

[cpanelkenneth]

If the document created by the HTML editor contains one of these smilies, how would Apache serve up the image from ~/.cpanel, which is outside the document root?

[cPanelTristan]

One idea might be to put the folder into /home/user/public_html/images/.smileys instead, which would create the images folder if it doesn't already exist or simply add the .smileys folder into that if it does. Since most people use or are used to seeing an images folder, it might be less surprising to see one added.

Otherwise, if the smilies are being linked for the image anyway, couldn't the location be in /usr/local/apache/htdocs or /usr/local/cpanel/img-sys for a global repository for the images?

Just some suggestions, which might not be overly valid ones, but these were the only ideas I could come up with to bypass the issue.

[Infopro]

Or a directory called cpsmilies with a readme.txt in it explaining how this directory got here, and why you shouldn't delete it. Not sure how many users would ever have a directory called cpsmilies, but if this was placed in an images directory, it could easily be wiped by accident I would think.

[txspaderz]

Otherwise, if the smilies are being linked for the image anyway, couldn't the location be in /usr/local/apache/htdocs or /usr/local/cpanel/img-sys for a global repository for the images?

I like this idea

[cpanelkenneth]

It really depends upon whether WYSIWYG Pro supports such configurations. That is the 3rd Party software used as the HTML Editor.

[cPanelDavidG]

It really depends upon whether WYSIWYG Pro supports such configurations. That is the 3rd Party software used as the HTML Editor.

The wysiwygPro developer documentation seems to imply this may be possible: Setting Dir and URL properties - WysiwygPro, Browser Based Online HTML WYSIWYG Editor

Looking at /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/WysiwygPro/editor_files/config.php - I am able to confirm the software itself supports this (permissions/ownership issues not withstanding):

define('SMILEY_FILE_DIRECTORY', $_SERVER['HOME'].'/public_html/.smileys/');


// SMILEY_WEB_DIRECTORY
// The web address of the directory you specified above


define('SMILEY_WEB_DIRECTORY', '/.smileys/');

[cPanelDavidG]

Update: The HTML editor included in cPanel&WHM will be changing. We currently use a project called WYSIWYG Pro, but that project is now dead, hence our desire to move to something else.

Part of moving to a new editor is that it will be very likely we will be removing the need for a .smileys directory entirely in the new editor.