BTW -- in defense of symlinks and rewrite rules:
While in many cases being dirty hacks, and convenience features, as well as allowing old-links to work, and preventing people from seing 404's, they did have one other nice "side" benefit.
WHen I set up sites, I often used a symlink to an exisiting data directory, rather than uploading the data again -- even if it was being used differently (this is mostly in my clip-art, colors, logos, etc directories).
When FTP downloaded the sites for my personal "disaster" backups, it followed the symlinks, as if they were "real" links. So, my off-line backups have "complete" copies of each of the virtual sites, without symlinks (where possible).
This makes restoration of certain things much easier, and unlinks my sites from the burdon of years of upgrades :)
Every cloud has a silver lining if you look hard enough -- in this case, I can now put my sites on physically different machines, without missing data between them.
Just thought I would post this so people wouldn't fear the symlink <G>.
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While in many cases being dirty hacks, and convenience features, as well as allowing old-links to work, and preventing people from seing 404's, they did have one other nice "side" benefit.
WHen I set up sites, I often used a symlink to an exisiting data directory, rather than uploading the data again -- even if it was being used differently (this is mostly in my clip-art, colors, logos, etc directories).
When FTP downloaded the sites for my personal "disaster" backups, it followed the symlinks, as if they were "real" links. So, my off-line backups have "complete" copies of each of the virtual sites, without symlinks (where possible).
This makes restoration of certain things much easier, and unlinks my sites from the burdon of years of upgrades :)
Every cloud has a silver lining if you look hard enough -- in this case, I can now put my sites on physically different machines, without missing data between them.
Just thought I would post this so people wouldn't fear the symlink <G>.
PUGDOG� Enterprises, Inc.
The best way to contact me is to NOT use Email.
Please leave a PM here.
