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NGINX file server with symlinks

This is a bit of a beginner question, but I'm trying to make Nginx serve a static file server that contains symlinked folders. Eg, the root directory might contain directories A and B, which each contain symlinks to one other, eg A/B -> B and B/A ->…
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Subdomains as subfolders and symlinks

I have a main wordpress and several subdomains. They were created in the usual way - I added subdomains to the panels (Fastpanel), and in the subdomain folders I added symbolic links to the files of the main domain. It works perfectly as expected.…
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Symlink with execution permission and... arguments?

I am using Linux Mint 20.1, which is based on Ubuntu 20.04. My kernel is 5.4.0-60-generic. All the commands below are runned in GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) I have seen the same behaviour with some other commands, but…
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mounted a symlink on a mountpoint

I have a samba share called A on a machined named aaron. Inside that share is a smylink called Audio-CD_WAVs which points to a machine local directory. When this share is accessed by a windows machine, samba follows the link and exports the target…
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Can you create a symlink for a file to multiple targets in bash?

I am looking to create a symlink for a file (E.g., /var/log/cron/cron.log) which will have a symlink to both /proc/1/fd/2 and /proc/1/fd/1. Is this possible?
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Working Nginx-PHP-FPM setup; then switched from RAID1 to RAID10, and now setup doesn't work

Converted a RAID 1 volume to RAID10. The file system appears to be exactly the same on the new RAID 10 volume as the previous RAID 1 volume. For some reason PHP-FPM won't take a symbolic link to the config on the MDADM RAID10 anymore. So I copied…
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apache: "Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible" on another filesystem only

I have a a file in remote directory which is moulted to apache DocRoot tree. When I try to download a file (not write) from that dir I get 403: AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/b2b/web/var What I…
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Debugging how symbolic link is getting broken in ubuntu?

I have a symbolic link of the form ubuntu@platform1:~$ ls -lrt total 28 drwxr-xr-x 4 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Mar 2 15:02 deploy lrwxrwxrwx 1 ubuntu ubuntu 14 May 25 18:27 logs -> /var/log/arkin Disk layout ubuntu@platform1:~$ df -h Filesystem …
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Why does mod_rewrite require FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch?

I would like to disable FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch options, but at the same time I do want to use mod_rewrite. I checked the source code of apache 2.4 and I found there is only a condition that does not allow RewriteEngine On, when the…
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how to create fake symlinks when copying to CIFS share with rsync

So I have to backup lot's of data to a company server. And it creates a fair share of symbolic links. I'm on a Linux Machine, and the backup server is accessed via CIFS, which does not support symbolic links. And there is nothing I can do about…
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Remote Link on OSX

I have two machines on the same LAN, I usually ssh from one to the other and I was wondering if I could create a symbolic or hard link from a box that points to the other one. I'm using OSX on both PC's Thanks a lot!
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Prevent local WordPress from deleting Plugins via Symlink

I run a local web server for developing plugins. My plugins reside in git repositories and I create symlinks to link them to the WordPress installations plugin folder. Sometimes it happens that I accidentially use the wrong browser tab and delete…
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Issues with deploying PHP application by switching symlink

I'm seeing errors like these in the Apache error log immediately after deployment and there are HTTP 500 errors: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught RuntimeException: Failed to write cache file…
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have 2 folders on different disks behave as if they were 1 folder

I have a server with two 1TB hard drives. I have an uploads folder on /disk2/uploads, That folder has filled up the entire hard drive. The other disk is basically empty. I want to have a spill over folder on the empty drive that hosts any…
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linux redhat + how to overwrite the existing link quiet mode

is it possible to overwrite the exiting link Without to get fail/error with standard output 1 ? ( like mkdir -p ) ls -ltr /hadoop lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 12 Jun 25 12:51 /hadoop -> /data/hadoop ln -s /data/hadoop /hadoop ln: failed to create…
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