[pmwiki-users] Re: wiki farm vs individual programs

[Joachim Durchholz]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:03:44PM -0500, Jon Haupt wrote:
> 
>>   So then I tried using a "symlink".  Again I didn't know what i was doing
>>   so I just looked it up and ended up using the following command to create
>>   a link (from the field /pub directory):
>>
>>   ln -s /path/to/pmwiki/pub farmpub
> 
> [...]
> 
> You also have to make sure that the webserver has permission to the
> farm's pub/ directory -- at minimum this means having execute permissions
> on each of the directories /path, /path/to, /path/to/pmwiki, and
> /path/to/pmwiki/pub .

Apache may or may not follow symlinks as well - it's a configuration 
option. If it's switched off, you can often activate it in .htaccess with

   Options +FollowSymLinks

in the directory that has the symlink (or one of its ancestor directories).

Whether an option is allowed or not in .htaccess can be configured in 
Apache, so it is possible that symlinks can't be made to work. I suggest 
setting up a test that checks just whether symlinks work, say, by 
installing a simple .html file, creating a symlink to it from the same 
directory, then retrieve the file and the symlink and see whether the 
symlink gets served.

Regards,
Jo