Common Directory for All Sites

[dimitris]

Hi folks...

I have just bought a dedicated server running Fedora and Plesk 7.5 Reloaded. Nice stuff!

Some of the sites I am porting over have a common directory, the files of which are referenced relatively (e.g., <a href="../parent/images/a.jpg">, where "parent" could be the vhosts directory used by Plesk). Now they don't work anymore, as all relative referencing is ignored and I have to copy the common parent directory to the root of each site, which is not optimal.

It's probably an Apache thinkg, but still annoying. I looked inside httpd.conf but no reference to the sites is made there, so probably they are declared in a database?

Anyway, here's my question: is there any quick way of declaring a common parent directory using the above architecture? I don't mind hacking with Linux, or even httpd.conf, as long as it's not a major change in terms of either amount of coding and time.

Thanks,

Dimitris

 

[ad7742]

One solution that comes to mind is to use symbolic links.

Copy all of the required shared files to a single directory (e.g. /home/shared) and then within each httpdocs folder simply make a symbolic link that points to /home/shared

e.g.

cd /home/httpd/vhosts/DOMMAINNAME/httpdocs
ln -s /home/shared sharedmedia

You would need to make sure that /home/shared is readable by apache and ensure that Apache is configured to allow FollowSymLinks.

Oh - you'd need to check if this is automatically backed up by psadump - not sure if it follows symlinks. Also, if it DOES follow symlinks then it's going to back the same data up multiple times... Just a few points to bear in mind!

HTH

Andy

 

[ad7742]

Oh - one other thing... Plesk stores the rest of the httpd.conf information in a whole range of httpd.include files. One is within the /etc/httpd/conf folder and the rest are within the /home/httpd/vhosts/*/conf folders. Do not bother making any manual changes to these files - they are regularly rewritten by Plesk.

If you want to make any per-domain changes to Apache, use the vhost.conf file. There are plenty of examples of using these files within these forums. I seem to recall that there is also basic reference to this file in Chapter 6 of the Manual for Administrators (http://www.sw-soft.com/en/products/plesk75reloaded/docs/)

Cheers

Andy