I’m looking for a bit of advice on renaming the /Umbraco directory.

I have found posts that definitely imply that people are doing this and it is common practice and perhaps even recommended, such as postst3884. I have also found posts that state this causes problems, particularly in v3.x, such as postst5688.

I have tried two approaches to this problem and both have failed. I am looking for the best practice here.

First, I tried the straight rename of the /Umbraco directory to /BackOffice and then updated web.config.appSettings.umbracoPath = /BackOffice. This failed because of some hardcoding in TinyMCE. Specifically, umbraco_client\tinymce\plugins\advlink\editor_plugin.js line 51 (see posting for more details).

Second (after abandoning the first approach), I tried urlRewriting rules that leave the Umbraco directory in place (i.e. leave it like the standard install) but allow me to accept requests from /BackOffice and re-route them to /Umbraco. The problem here is that if I DON’T set umbracoPath = /BackOffice then my toolbar will sit in the wrong place (per my workitem). If I DO set umbracoPath = /BackOffice, then all my resources disappear (e.g. [content], [developer] etc) because they don’t really exist in /BackOffice.

What's a guy to do?

Jimbo