Questions tagged [symbolic-link]
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How can I use an external ExFat drive as localhost web server storage on OSX?
I'm using an external ExFat harddrive mounted at /Volumes/Samsung and have working symlinks connecting my localhost web server: ln -s /Volumes/Samsung/recordings ~/Developer/example/files/recordings
I can verify readability with python3 and php…
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Would access to a symbolic link trigger the automounter to mount the destination path?
Following up on such a basic question as Why directories only appear after access, here's another simple one:
If there is an automounted path at e.g.:
/server/vault
and it contains a sub directory:
/server/vault/data
And there is a static mount…
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Symbolic Link in Windows not behaving as expected
I have kind of a weird problem with the symbolic Links in Windows:
First, a little background to this whole situation:
We have a Domain Controller, where most of our data is stored, but we have two folders on a NAS for Sync purposes.
Now, these two…
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Can I give access to users from outside of the network via link which will need to be downloaded in limited time in linux FTP server?
I am new in Ubuntu Linux. Here is my task,
Set up an FTP server.
Add users to this FTP server and create new directories in their home directories.
Give access to users from outside of network via a link (I guess I need to use symbolic link for…
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Git ignore is ignoring sym.llinks?
In a laravel project I have a storage folder and inside it, I have an app folder (normally). So the full path is: /var/www/html/myproject/storage/app
Now I have a file server and I wish to serve the app folder from there. Thus I've set up an NFS…
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Apache: Serve one directory in two virtualhosts
I try share a WordPress plugin directory between two sites. The problem is that the scripts are working but not the URLS. They are output in a strage way that the path is in there when it should not. And this has nothing to do with the plugin or…
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creating a drive (letter) that is a link to a folder
on my home pc I want to simplify things when it falls to accessing my home folder, so I would like to make my c:\Users\myusername folder pointing to a virtual drive created ad-hoc, such as Y:.
In this I would spare the tediousness of writing that…
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Porting Site Created On Windows Apache Server to Linux Apache Server - Symlinks disappear
I created a site on a testing server on my local Windows machine, and now I wish to port it to a remote server which is Linux. Both sites running under Apache.
To create symlinks on Windows, is stopped the server, and used mklink /d source…
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Symbolically link all JPGs in a directory tree to a single directory
I have a series of directories, and images contained within:
/Volumes/library/Originals/2012/2012-05-13 Event/filename.jpg
/Volumes/library/Originals/2011/2011-03-11 Event/filename.jpg
/Volumes/library/Originals/2011/2011-01-12…
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Tomcat7 pointing to a symbolic link WAR
I have Tomcat7 running on a Linux server. Tomcat is pointing to a symbolic link WAR for my application. The link is pointing to the actual WAR. I am looking to upgrade the app. What I have done is placed a new WAR file of the upgraded app and made a…
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