How do you turn on Follow Sym links? Quoting Jacob Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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 > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
