RE: [cobalt-users] "HomeSite 4" can't access the main vsite home

["Greg O'Lone" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of bib
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 10:54 AM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] "HomeSite 4" can't access the main vsite home
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> First of all, I apologize for asking about a product that has 
> nothing to 
> do with C-O-B-A-L-T (but our server is a RaQ550).
> The editor's forum for that product is more than a bit too slooow, 
> sothat I wendt to this list.
> 
> One of our users, using "HomeSite v4" for managing his site remotely, 
> complains about not being able to access his main site home. He only 
> have access to his "personal" home. The same happens to a 
> DreamWeaver user.
> 
> Well, knowing nothing about those tools, I've set a Symlink on the 
> user's "personnal" home that permiss to jump to the site home 
> through a 
> forwards only movement.
> 
> More precisely:
> 
>     /home/sites/this.site.com/users/john                      
>  User home 
> for ftp and personal web
>     /home/sites/this.site.com/users/john/_MAIN_ --> ../../..  
>  Symlink 
> to the Site Home
>     /home/site/this.site.com/                                 
>  Site home 
>         
> 
> Doing this resolved perfectly the issue for Dreamweaver, but it still 
> remains a problem for HomeSite:
> HomeSite do not even see this symlink !
> 
> Do someone know how to resolve this issue ?
> 
> Many thanks in advance for your help
> Kindest regards
> Bertrand
> 

We've got LOTS of customers that use Dreamweaver. Make sure the user is
a site administrator and that the directory they have specified is /web/
.

--
Greg O'Lone, President
Stretched Out Software, Inc
http://www.stretchedout.com