Yii 1 Framework / PHP: How to change the include path?

Saturday 12 January 2019

I have a application which is running on the Yii 1 Framework.

This is how the project structure looks like:

\app
   \config
   \models
   \views
   ... and a lot more
\css
\js
\img
\.. and some more stuff
index.php

To improve the security, I want to make sure, that application (php) files or other stuff is in the root directory.

I want to have following structure:

\app
    \config
    \models
    \views

    ... and a lot more
\htdocs [ROOT]
    \css
    \js
    \img
    index.php

After changing the structure, I get errors as expected. I already changed the path in /htdocs/index.php, but there are more:

No such file or directory in [...]\yii\framework\base\CApplication.php on line 133

Is there an easy way to fix all the paths, without changing 1 million paths in the framework?

Thank you very much!

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