Re: Soft-Linking and includes

My limited understanding of Unix hard and soft links is that /www/dir2/subdir is not a directory, it is a pointer to the inode that is pointed to by /www/dir1/subdir. I think to accomplish what you want, /www/dir2/subdir would have to be a true directory, filled with soft links to each of the files in /www/dir1/subdir, or your include would need an explicit path. Jonathan Hilgeman wrote:

I'm on a red hat system, and I've soft-linked two directories: /www/dir1/subdir /www/dir2/subdir --> /www/dir1/subdir Now, inside subdir is a file that tries to include("../info.php"); which prints out some information about the file paths and my database stuff. So there's: /www/dir1/info.php /www/dir1/subdir/includer.php /www/dir2/info.php /www/dir2/subdir --> /www/dir1/subdir Now, when I run /www/dir2/subdir/includer.php, it SHOULD include the file "../info.php" which translates into /www/dir2/info.php. However, the symbolic linking seems to have messed it up, and instead of running dir2's info.php, it seems to think it is in dir1, and instead includes dir1's info.php file. Has anyone run into this and/or know a fix for it? Thanks! - Jonathan

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