shared installation: hard or symbol-link?

[stm999999999]

Hello,

on http://www.s9y.org/41.html is written:

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$ ln -s -d /usr/local/lib/php/s9y/templates /home/www/garvin.s9yblogs.org/htdocs/templates

manpage says:

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-d, -F, --directory 
Allow the super-user to make hard links to directories. 
-s, --symbolic 
Make symbolic links instead of hard links.

-s or -d? hard ord symbolic links?

So, doing this on a remote server with php-script:

symlink() or link()?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I always use "-s -d" and it works.

Best regards,
Garvin

[stm999999999]

ok, I take symlink(), ont the first sight, it works. But on the second ...

I make a dir "joseph" parallel to "s9y". I copy alls deplyoment-files. I make a symbol-link for templates and htmlarea.

I get most of teh template to display, but not the template-images.

When I try to look at one of the images directly, i get:

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You don't have permission to access /templates/joseph01/img/right_header-kirche4.png on this server.

This is my joseph-dir:

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lrwxrwxrwx    1 30       8              16 Nov 27 23:23 templates -> ../s9y/templates
drwxrwxrwx    2 717      717          4096 Nov 27 23:22 templates_c

Is there anything wrong?

FYI: my s9y-dir:

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drwxrwxrwx   36 717      717          4096 Nov 26 17:28 templates
drwxrwxrwx    2 717      717          8192 Nov 27 00:33 templates_c

BTW, the same error occurs for the preview-images in the style-selector, but of course only for the local themes like

http://joseph.hweb24test.ok-webhost08.d ... review.png

the nettmirror-images are fine.

And I have a second installation like joseph (=no core-files, only deployment), but I make a copy of templates, no link; this works fine.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

A permission denied often means that your webserver does not FollowSymlinks in some cases?

I never used PHP symlink, I always only use Linux-Bash/SSH symlink creation.

Best regards,
Garvin

[stm999999999]

great answer!

"Options +FollowSymLinks" in the .htaccess helps very much!

BTW, I found out, that the both link/copy-statements are not enough:

things like

http://host.example/plugins/serendipity ... icpage.png
(the edit_staticpage-image for the wikilinks)

or

<script type="text/javascript">var lightbox_path = "/plugins/serendipity_event_lightbox/lightbox_plus";</script>

do not work on shared installations!

There must be a link to /plugins, too!