Re: [cobalt-developers] path to main index.html

[Herb Rubin <herbr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce,

Sym linking (with -s) should not remove the main web directory, just the
symlink
entry. In Linux/Unix, directories and files are not removed until all
pointers to it are gone.

Herb


Bruce Timberlake wrote:

> > Just change your proftpd.conf by adding the line below within the
> > <Global> section:
> >
> >    DefaultChdir            ../../web site-adm
> >
> > It will start the admin users off within the main /web directory
> > instead of their user directory.
>
> This is the preferred method of doing this (if the users can't figure
> out how to set default remote directory in their FTP program).
>
> Symlinking their home directory, or editing the user configuration to
> put the site directory as their home directory is BAD and DANGEROUS:
> when a user is removed from the system, their home directory is
> automatically and completely destroyed as well.  If their "home" dir is
> the site dir, your entire website goes away in the blink of an eye.
>
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>
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