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We migrated a working installation of CiviCRM to a cloud system.  On the move we got a totally White screen when entering the civiCRM component backend.

An engineer eventually solved it.

He edited the civicrm.settings.php and changed paths (3 of them).
Then, backend component started working and I have changed the remaining paths in configuration.
Or actually I tried to change, because for some reason CiviCRM decided that my activity is suspicious and didn't let me finish.

As of the patch I did to CiviCRM: I changed the file
administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Utils/File.php
Around line 300, there is a function called createDir. I changed its first line to:
if ( is_dir( $path ) || empty( $path ) || $path == '/') {
Namely, I added the $path == '/' condition, so it does not fall into infinite loop and therefore whitescreen when it has bad paths set.

This is on Joomla Version 1.5.14
CiviCRM Version 3.0.1

Can this be changed so that this will not happen in future versions?