Re: [cobalt-users] Virtual paths

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

> If I have created a virtual domain on my RAQ3 and assigned a user as
> siteadmin, if this person wishes to install cgi scripts, the path to his
> account is shown as /web. Of course, this won't work because the path is
> actually /home/sites/site#/web/
>
> Is there any way around this or do I have to tell all of my users that
they
> are site#?
>
> Landon

If you'll go into /home/sites and do a directory listing, you'll see that
there is also a path to his site (a pointer) that looks like this:
/home/sites/www.hisdomain.com/web
He can use that instead.

However, I've had better luck with the scripts just using the site#. Most of
the CGI scripts I've used don't like the pointer - they want a hardcoded
path.
You can let him know that the site# has nothing to do with how many users
are on the machine - for example, you can have 150 users on the machine but
if you delete site3, the next person you put on the machine will become
/home/sites/site3.  That person might think there's only 3 sites on the
server, but it's not true. Just explain to him it's an assigned number to
his folder.

What's the harm in telling him the site#?
I include the true path (/home/sites/site#, /home/sites/site#/web) in all of
my welcome letters so that users won't have any problems.

Carrie B