Hi, I am new to this. Cheers
I have been playing with silverstripe. Pretty neat stuff.
I havn't contributed anything yet because I am still learning.

I wanted to run an additional custom made php software. It is a simple chat interface.
It gets its own upgrades from the developer. To pop the chat up it is a simple link.
Could be placed like a dataobject but I will integrate it into the custom modified theme I am making.

I don't need to integrate it into the CMS as it has its own back and that is ok.
what is the preferred directory to install it to.

I found a few suggestions like best to install under
/home/public_html/assets/livechat/
execute under www.example.com/livechat/
or under
/home/public_html/theme/livechat/
execute under www.example.com/theme/livechat/

I could use another URL but for consistency I want to use the same base URL and SSL cert as the CMS

The reason for my question is I don't want the file to get included in a DEV/BUILD.
Or is there a way to install it in /chat and have silverstripe skip the folder.

Thanks for your help.

Scott

i figured a non critical folder would be ok,
but the manifest exclude is really what i wanted to know.

Thank you so much for responding so quickly. Your solution worked.

I almost everything worked ok from the start or wasn't hard to get going with some small tweaking