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consolidate CMS files in one place

We have a system where we use a bespoke CMS on one of our servers. This CMS is used by 30-40 clients. The majority of the files for each client CMS are the same (apart from a few folders)as each time we add a new feature / patch / bug fix we roll it…
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Determine volume location by understanding Windows symbolic link name

I need to figure out the location pointed to by a Windows symbolic link in order to troubleshoot something wrong with the folder or files located there. It's of the form: C:?\Volume{5c286810-f966-...} Is there a utility to do this, or is this…
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Can I make "static redirects" using symlinks in Apache?

I'm overhauling a site to use a new URL structure, but don't want the old URLs to 404, instead redirect to the new content. To complicate things, this is on a shared host where .htaccess is the only configuration allowed. There are a lot of old…
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IIS server: directory not writable via symbolic link compared to directory junction (for only the first user)

We have the following setup for a webserver: Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, IIS 7.5.7600.16385, PHP 5.3.28, the HMVC framework we use is Kohana. Kohana needs a cache directory to be writable in D:\inetpub\www\application\cache (D:\inetpub\www\ is…
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Effective permissions for a shared mklink to a non-shared folder and subfolders

What are the effective permissions if you share a symlink but not the folder it points to? From what I can see, there are 3 sets of permissions: 1) the target folder permissions 2) the symlink folder permissions 3) the symlink shared permissions How…
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Symbolic links changed to SYMLINK on Windows Server

We have been using symbolic links extensively to archive historic files. An automatic script would create symbolic links regularly based on certain criteria. Users don't experience inconvenience as the soft links can be opened as regular files,…
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Can I upload files to one Windows share and expose them on another?

So I've got a Windows server with a couple of fileshares, call them ShareA and ShareB. ShareA is read/write accessible to only a couple of admins, and ShareB is read-only for all. The files on the server live side by side at D:\ShareA and…
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Enabling the URL of a folder connected via symlink

Scenario Description: In my workplace we have a DomainController and use TerminalServices. There are different types of servers running on the DC (e.g. webapi , app). The dev guys developing the API want to access a folder (i.e. app\images) through…
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Include folder for certain WWW host outside document root folder

Ubuntu 12.04, running on Apache server. I wonder if it is possible to run/access from the browser html/php file from other than the document root location let's say from folder /testfolder on the root. So once I enter the browser…
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Performance hit from moving DB to another drive symlink?

We're considering moving one database (there are 4 of them in total) with InnoDB tables, to a separate partition in a Ubuntu 14.04 VPS. This DB gets read/write intensive (500 writes per sec, about 1000 reads). The primary consideration is that the…
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mysql load_file() function always return null for symbolic link

i have installed new database server on ubuntu mysql version is 5.5.35 im trying to execute select load_file('/usr/home/aaa.com/medya_data/ver.txt') and im sure ver.txt file is exist but medya_data folder mapped as symbolic link if i try without…
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DegradedArray event after rsync but later mdadm and smartctl do not show any issue

I have in my cron rsync active and I started to get emails after each rsync This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on titan707 A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md/2. Faithfully yours,…
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Create Symbolic link in Windows 2008 specifying port

I have a Windows server 2008 where I have my website hosted. I'd like to do access the following URL: http://example.com:8400/one/two/index.html Using this URL: http://example.com/site.html I tried creating a symbolic link like this: mklink /J…
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Apache2: Use target name of symlink for Content-Type mapping

I am working on a web application that need to serve a number of continuously updated documents at static URLs, but the Content-Type of the documents differs (it's either JPEG or SVG). If the document is a symbolic link, the file at the end of the…
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Can I symlink my Windows data to another hard drive?

When I upgrade to Windows 7, I would like to keep the Windows installation and my data separate. Possibly install Windows itself on a small SSD for the performance gain. I know I can tell Windows that I've relocated my user data, but some…
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