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windows symbolic file links arn't followed through network access

I have a server with win7 and a big share on C:\share In this share there are many symbolic links to files on other local disks like C:\share\file.txt(symlink) <-> D:\file.txt I can access the file over: C:\share\file.txt \server\share\file.txt but…
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Symlinks for web pages

I have my web server set up running multiple sites and host them all in ~/sites/, outside apache document root (~/www), as follows: +-~/ +-sites/ +-project1/ | +-system/ | +-application/ | +-public_html/ | +-images/ | …
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Automatically create symbolic links in Linux to files in one folder when a file in that folder is created and edited

I have 2 folders on my Linux OS, Apache 2 Webserver. Call them folderA and folderB . They are have following paths site1/public/sites/all/folderA site2/public/sites/all/folderB I would like that whenever a file is added/edited to folderA, a symlink…
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Softlinking /home to a new folder on a big volume

I have a new large volume I would like to create a folder in called home to serve the users home folders, so the location would be /bigvolume/home. Would creating a softlink (ln -s) from /home to /bigvolume/home cause any problems?
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How do I make it so that I can run this program anywhere?

java -jar yuicompressor-2.4.2.jar ~/src/yuicompressor-2.4.2/build$ ls yuicompressor-2.4.2.jar Usually, I have to be in that directory to run this command. Is there any way I can set it so that I can run this command anywhere in my box?
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virtual concatenation of two certificate files

mongod requires a certificateKeyFile that is a combination of a certificate and a private key. certbot manages quarterly renewals of tls certificates that cannot be valid for more than 3 months. the result of a successful certbot renewal run is the…
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How can I set specific directory for different users in proftp?

Currently, when user A logs in proftp, he comes at his home directory /home/A, when user B logs in proftp, he comes at his home directory /home/B. I want to let user A come at /dir1 and let user B come at /dir2, how can I do in proftpd's…
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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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Why doesnt creating a sym link from python to python 3 work?

My goal is to make sure that python refers to python3 in my mac terminal. What i have tried so far are the following two attempts 1. Adding an alias in .zshrc alias python=python3 after re sourcing my .zshrc file this allowed me to type python…
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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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vsftpd won't allow user to follow symlinks and to write in the destination folder

Related to the questions : How to allow a vsftpd to write to a folder other than default /files? (The answers are not what I need) and Allow local users to access /var/www folder in vsftpd (I don't understand the answer, I don't know how to do what…
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How do i create Symlink to /var/log/myapp to another mount?

I am not very familiar with unix terminologies but I have a requirement where I have installed Gitlab on one of my RHEL server. By default the installation and log goes to /var/opt/gitlaband /var/log/gitlab respectively. Gitlab doesn't recommend to…
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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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Symbolic link set but not changes until reboot?

I wrote a deployment script and in final step I have following code: ln -sf /link/to/latest/release symlink/to/current; I try to set the symbolic link or update if it exist, theoretically it works and with ls -l I see that correct directory was…
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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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