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

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Step Firth wrote:

> Hello, I have got rather muddled.

> 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

Try to avoid making symlinks from directories you are no tin, using
relative paths like this when you aren't actully in the target directory
makes a symlink that is different that what you expect..

If you made it correctly you should be able to cd to the correct place
using the symlink....
The other detail is ytou need ot tell the web server it's ok to follow a
symlink that points somewhere outside the documentroot, it won't do this
by default..

create .htaccess in web/ for main site and in it add

Options +FollowSymLinks

That should make everything happy...