i am back - now trying to figure out "symbolic links"

mission critical need...

[iggy99]

we are closer to being able to publish our new flowershop - in part to help obtained here -- many thanks everybody!

now on to the goods --

we are our own isp we are on a cobalt raq4i we are installing an ssl cert on one domain to be shared by other sites ---

my problem now --

i have to duplicate image dirs under the main site as well as the ssl site --- i terrible problem --

we need to set up symbolic links from the ssl to the non ssl site

i have gone to my raq provider - they say they are not in aposition to help...

i would be grateful for any help in this one!

[ndjp]

Well iggy it's been almost a month now, has all this been worked out?

[littleman]

To set up a symbolic link shell into your box and type a link in this syntax
ln -s /path/to/object/to/link/to /path/to/symbolic/link

[ndjp]

Why do the main site and ssl site differ folder structure wise? You may want to think about creating a virtual directory on the webserver instead.

[iggy99]

what do you mean by "creating a virtual directory "

our goal here is to be able to share ssl with other sites on hte same server

[ndjp]

If I understand you correctly, you have an images directory that you need to use on both the non-ssl and ssl site (you share images on both sites). So, the easy solution is to map /images on both sites to the same folder. On IIS this is a virtual folder, Apache it's an alias. I don't know what server you're running so it's hard to guess :-)

[iggy99]

we are on a cobalt raq4i "unix"