Sym Links Question

[nolageek]

On my server, I installed Movable Type into the colowing directory:

 

/cgi-bin/mt-2.63/

 

I'd like to reference this directory by using

/cgi-bin/mt/

 

That way, when I upgrade movable type to version 2.7, etc. I would just have to update the symbolic link, pointing /cgi-bin/mt to /cgi-bin/mt-2.7/

 

I can't remember the correct syntax for doing this, and would it have to be a hard link, or a sym link?

 

Thanks!

 

Vincent

[rayners]

A sym link should be fine. Unfortunately, I haven't the slighest idea how to create one through FTP (or CPanel's File Manager).

 

Anybody have a clue how to do that?

[alexfung]

Yeap. It can't be done using cpanel or FTP. It is one of the rare situations we need telnet.

 

I also tried to use PHP and CGI to execute the link command. I am not family with either so I ended up in a mess. You can give them a try.

 

I also need a few symobolic links. Solutions will be much appreciated.

[idallen]

Here is a CGI that will create a symbolic link named bar under your public_html/ directory

and then show you the contents of the directory (so you can verify the link):

 

>#!/bin/sh -u
# -IAN! idallen@ncf.ca

cat <<EOF
Content-Type: text/plain

Hello.  If you don't see this, your CGI isn't working.
The blank line after Content-Type: above is necessary.
The "id" and "pwd" commands below are not necessary;
they just show you info about how the script is running.
Make sure you make this script executable, and put it
in your public_html/cgi-bin/ directory.
EOF
id
pwd
cd $DOCUMENT_ROOT
pwd
ln -s foo bar
ls -l

[alexfung]

Thanks it is linked.

 

However, I am astonished that my

 

DOCUMENT_ROOT=/usr/local/apache/htdocs

 

 

What is happening?