Re: [uug] downloading documents outside of webroot

[Jacob Fugal]

Wade Preston Shearer wrote:

what are symlinks?

On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 04:35  PM, Brent Thomson wrote:

Assuming you're using Apache and have FollowSymLinks enabled, you can
make (you guessed it) a symlink to the file you want to give access to
from a directory that is within webroot.
-Brent

A symbolic link (symlink) is somewhat analogous to a shortcut in 
winders. To create a symbolic link, use the following syntax:

ln -s /path/to/real/file link_name

eg.

ln -s /mnt/media/music /var/www/web_page/music/

where /var/www/web_page/ would be the web page's root.

Then, assuming the files in /mnt/media/music have the necessary 
permissions, I could browse the files online using www.example.com/music/...

Jacob Fugal

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