Well I asked and no symlinks allowed unfortunately. He says symlinks
can be used to gain access to the root of the machine.
On Jun 19, 11:02 am, acoustic_overdrive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi Marcin,
>
> Sorry I'm not that up to speed with linux filesystems but I'll have a
> go at explaining...
>
> The files are stored on an NFS server which has two mountpoints on the
> webserver, one of which is writable (where my tmp stuff is) and the
> other is read-only (where the rest of my application code and webroot
> is). I'm not allowed any more mountpoints and so I need the shared
> writable folder to be outside this cake application as it is going to
> be shared by several cake applications, not just one. Otherwise I
> would have asked him to mount it as app/tmp inside my app and keep the
> file structure as intended.
>
> so my structure on the NFS server is:
>
> docroot/app1
> docroot/app2
> docroot/app3
> sharedtmp/app1
> sharedtmp/app2
> sharedtmp/app3
>
> and on the webserver it looks like this:
>
> docroot/app1
> docroot/app2
> docroot/app3
> docroot/sharedtmp/app1
> docroot/sharedtmp/app2
> docroot/sharedtmp/app3
>
> I think the whole point in this exercise is so he can separate
> readable and writable folders without having to add more mountpoints
> in future.
>
> He also disabled symlinks for security reasons so I can't use
> mod_rewrite either :-(
>
> But what you're suggesting could be interesting actually. Can I create
> three symbolic links from the sharedtmp to put my tmp folders back
> where they should be inside each app?
>
> On Jun 19, 10:33 am, "Marcin Domanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > can't you just symlink the directories ?
>
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:02 AM, acoustic_overdrive
>
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi Dave,
>
> > > Thanks for the tip - I didn't realise that. I will give that a try. If
> > > I set that do you think the TMP constant is ignored? or is it still
> > > used for logs?
>
> > > Jamie
>
> > > On Jun 17, 9:05 pm, DaveMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> Actually, there's an even easier way - and the official one to boot!
>
> > >> Edit the cache command at app/core/config.php to look like
>
> > >> Cache::config('default', array('engine' => 'File', 'path' => '/custom/
> > >> tmp/path'));
>
> > >> Full notes for this command are in config.php.
>
> > >> On Jun 16, 1:03 pm,acoustic_overdrive<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >> wrote:
>
> > >> > Hi Dave thanks for checking.
>
> > >> > I'm not using mod_rewrite, and I've just realised this means that it
> > >> > will actually get its folder structure set up by the index.php in the
> > >> > root of the installation, not the bootstrap or index.php in webroot.
>
> > >> > Which also means I think I've solved my problem because definingTMP
> > >> > in that index.php file seems to work fine.
>
> > --
> > Marcin Domanskihttp://kabturek.info
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