I want to rename the folder 'VAADIN' inside the vaadin webapps folder. When a vaadin application user rightclick the page and view page-source there it shows this folder name.
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" href="./VAADIN/themes/mytheme/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" href="./VAADIN/themes/mytheme/favicon.ico">
<script type="text/javascript" src="./VAADIN/vaadinBootstrap.js?v=7.7.0"></script>
How can i rename that folder name to something else?
I got this answer from vaadin forum. https://vaadin.com/forum#!/thread/14109320
just don't do it.
Of course it can be done, and because Vaadin is all Open Source, yes it can be done. ./server/src/main/java/com/vaadin/server/Constants.java:136: final String THEME_DIR_PATH = "VAADIN/themes"; ./server/src/main/java/com/vaadin/server/Constants.java:140: static final String WIDGETSET_DIR_PATH = "VAADIN/widgetsets"; are places where you'd go first but since Vaadin Framework has grown over many years and we don't live in a perfect world, there are other hard-coded places in the source code as well such as: ./server/src/main/java/com/vaadin/server/BootstrapHandler.java:538: + "/VAADIN/"; ./server/src/main/java/com/vaadin/server/BootstrapHandler.java:698: + "/VAADIN/"
The name and location of the VAADIN folder is also a subject matter of many places of documentation, like ./documentation/advanced/advanced-embedding.asciidoc:92: src="#./#VAADIN/vaadinBootstrap.js"> ./documentation/advanced/advanced-embedding.asciidoc:243: src="VAADIN/vaadinBootstrap.js">
If you manage to change it everywhere and recompile the software yourself, then congratulations. It's quite some work, and doesn't achieve that much in return.
In a nutshell, this is something we don't support - and it's not really worth it if you think about it.
Just be proud you're using state of the art web technology : ) so there's nothing to hide when people find out!
Thanks to https://vaadin.com/web/enver/home