RE: [cpx] www or not www that is the question... but not the only one ;)

["Bob Browning" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The symlink works OK most of the time.  

The only problem I have so far is that we have a program that sync's the
software on our test system with the live site.  It navigates around the
directory tree on both systems and at every stage checks that the directory
it is in is the one it expects before it starts syncing the files.  The
program uses Net::FTP but I can simulate the problem using ftp.

257 "/www" is current directory.
ftp> cd htdocs
250 CWD command successful
ftp> pwd
257 "/www/domain.tld" is current directory.

So I get an error that the program is not finding itself in the directory it
expects to be in.

I can fix the program fairly easily but if anyone is using a third party
utility to keep directories in sync they are likely to come across the same
problem.

Bob 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-cpx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-cpx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Scott Wiersdorf
Sent: 04 January 2005 22:40
To: cpx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cpx] www or not www that is the question... but not the only
one ;)

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:35:33PM -0600, Steve Yates wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:22:47 -0000
> "Bob Browning" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I am fixing this on all our servers to make the directory
> > 
> > /usr/home/<USER>/www/htdocs
> 
> 	Us, too.  I'd guess the CPX way would be to allow multiple domains 
> for one user ID.
> 
> 	Would a simple...
> 
> ln -s ./domain.tld ./htdocs
> chown -h userid htdocs

This (without the chown) is exactly what Bob and I discussed off list:

    (become user)
    % cd ~/www
    % ln -s domain.tld htdocs

This will not affect cpx in the least and will let all your programs that
assume a fixed hierarchy work also. If somebody tries this, let me know how
it goes. If it works well for several people, we'd probably create a default
htdocs symlink for the first virtual host created for each user.

Scott
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