No. There are no plans to make Composer mandatory and most people don't touch it for Backdrop sites. While there are a few things you can do in Bee that you can't do in the UI, you can easily manage your site updates almost entirely through the user interface and without Bee.
One exception, but you can do this by editing the files through cPanel File Manager, FTP or some other way is when robots.txt, .htaccess or settings.php have changes that you need to apply. These are not replaced in the UI upgrade process (and won't be when the Bee upgrade command is complete) as it could override any custom settings.
Hi ian,
so, in your case all the other admin pages work fine, including the status page, only admin/reports/updates fails?
But you can access admin/reports? Weird...
I...
The File (Field) Paths module should be able to move existing files. I've not tested it, but the module description says:
Retroactive updates - rename and/or move...
Posted1 week 2 hours ago by Olaf Grabienski (Olafski) on:
Yes indeed. We are exploring a few other more costly options, but as we are a low-resource start-up, we could save a lot of money by integrating Backdrop, CiviCRM and Ubercart for our membership...
Hello Chrys..,
It looks like it was for Drupal 6, with a Dev release for D7...
Never seen it before, but it looks like an interesting module... Do you have an immediate need...
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No. There are no plans to make Composer mandatory and most people don't touch it for Backdrop sites. While there are a few things you can do in Bee that you can't do in the UI, you can easily manage your site updates almost entirely through the user interface and without Bee.
One exception, but you can do this by editing the files through cPanel File Manager, FTP or some other way is when
robots.txt,.htaccessorsettings.phphave changes that you need to apply. These are not replaced in the UI upgrade process (and won't be when the Bee upgrade command is complete) as it could override any custom settings.