Re: A question on links

scott wrote:
What I would like to do is create a link from one directory to another for the purposes of the apache web server. The apache directory looks like this:
/srv/www/vhosts/abc.com/srv/www/vhosts/abc.com

The above would also have a subdirectory of public_html.

For simplicity, I would like to have a directory of this:
/home/abc.com

Now abc.com would have a link to the /srv/www/vhosts/abc.com directory. So is someone reads, modifies, creates files, etc in the /home/abc.com directory it will be done to the files in the /srv/www/vhosts/abc.com directory.

Would this be a hard link or a symbolic link to do this? Also, what about permissions, ownership of the directories?


I can't advise on the security of doing this for a webserver directory but you would do it thus

ln -s /home/abc.com /srv/www/vhosts/abc.com

This would be a symbolic link. You can't make hard links of directories. The link itself will have the default permissions and ownership of whoever created it but the *effective* permissions will be whatever is on the target directory.

JohnK
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