Re: Difficulty navigating symlinks

On 22 Oct 2008, at 18:16, Seth Foss wrote:

Robert Cummings wrote:

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 11:59 -0400, Seth Foss wrote:

Hi everyone, I am trying to run multiple sites on the same server, that have mostly identical code - a pre-built application. Anyway, I would like to save disk space by specifying independent configuration files for each site, then using symbolic links to access the rest of the code for the application. I have managed to configure apache so one such directory is accessed via a symlink, which is ok. However, a file within the linked directory attempts to include the configuration file (../config.php) from the actual parent directory instead of the directory containing the symlink. Is there any way to configure apache or php to trace back the symlink when using '..', or can that only go one direction?

Why not use CVS or SVN and just checkout the code? Sure you have it in multiple places that way, but it's a cinch to deploy and allows rollback to specific versions on any given tree. Cheers, Rob.

Thanks for the advice, Rob. I actually do have CVS and have been using it the way you describe. However, the sheer quantity of websites is beginning to overwhelm our disk space, especially when you consider that everything but the configuration is identical, and we do almost no modification to 95% of the code. Anyway, if it isn't possible, then that's fine. I'm just trying to use our resources as efficiently as possible. Does anyone have any other ideas?

Check $_SERVER - there's almost certainly a var in there that can help you get the right absolute path. $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] springs to mind but whether it's right depends on how your web server is configured. Create a script with just the following code to see what's there... <pre><?php print_r($_SERVER); ?></pre> -Stut -- http://stut.net/