Re: [cobalt-users] Symbolic Link from web to user/web directory

["Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>]

> main site www.domain.com
> highly publicised sub project url
> www.domain.com/project
> This project is completely administered by a third party,
> that I don't want meddling with the rest of the site.
>
> So, I set up a user, and they have uploaded their project to...
> www.domain.com/~user1/project
> which is live and working on the web.
>
> I then made a symbolic link (directory to directory) so the original url
still works...
> from /home/sites/www.domain.com
> ln -s users/user1/web/project web/project

Apache dosen't follow sym links without some adjustment which becomes a
large security hole that you want to avoid.

Zeffie