Re: [cobalt-developers] Site admin / user directories

["Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Couldnt we add that link to like a skel directory so any new
accounts will
> have that also??
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Herb Rubin" <herbr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Cobalt Developers" <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 2:08 PM
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-developers] Site admin / user directories
>
>
> > I just ssh in there and create a sym link called html like this:
> >
> > cd ~user
> > ln -s ../../web html
> >
> > so now they just cd to html and they are in the right directory
> > to upload.
> >
> > Herb
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 07:40, Distortal wrote:
> > > > Subject: [cobalt-developers] Site admin / user directories
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > List,
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone come up with a better way in which that if a site
admin
> > > > ftp's to their account, they will actually be in the sites
root
> > > > folder, and not the user dir?  I have many clients that get
really
> > > > confused when they login, upload their site to the web
diretory, and
> > > > didnt realize they just uploaded it to domain.com/~user.
> > > >
> > > > How is everyone else doing this??
> > >
> > > Advise them to set the initial folder to "/web" in their FTP
software -
> I
> > > recommend CuteFTP.
> > >
> > > RM

What I do is edit the proftpd.conf and add the following line to the
<global> section:
 DefaultChdir            ../../web site-adm



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Ken Marcus
Precision Web Hosting
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