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Re: [cobalt-users] Problems with Uploading webpages



 >Specifically for the complaint you mention:

(from users directory)
1.) mv <user dir> <user dir>_orig
2.) ln --symbolic ../web/ <user dir>

you could just remove the original user home directory (step 1 is just
cautionary).

Thanks for the info, but I am having a problem.  Once I create the link, as
admin, when I try to FTP to the directory, I get an invalid password error
and it won't let me in.  Should I be logging in as the user then making the
changes so the ownerships are correct?


This happened to me, with my last "virtual". I think that there is a bug in the system. Here's what I experienced:

Created a virtual domain account, with the client's domain name and information. The box (Raq3) created the four directories (web, logs, etc.). I tried to ftp (as "admin") the client's Web site files from my local drive to the "web" directory, and kept getting errors. I called Cobalt tech support, who confirmed the problem but had no solution. They suggested blowing away any traces of the virtual and creating it again. I did that, but there was no difference. I still couldn't FTP files to the "web" directory.

	Here's what I did:

I created a new "Web2" directory that sat along side the four default directories, but via FTP. I was able to upload the client files into the directory that I created (go figure). I deleted the "web" directory that the box created, and renamed my directory "web" to replace it.

	FWIW    ; )



Patrick Beart
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