Unix Question: Can you create a soft link to your httpdocs folder?

[Clark]

Just upgraded to a new server and I'm using Plesk for the first time. Trying to learn the ropes.

On my old machine, the path to my docment root was very short and simple. /home/mysitename/www

On the new one, with Plesk, the path is more like /home/httpd/vhosts/mywholedomainname/

So, if there is a way, I would like to create a soft link alias to point to this directory. It would be much easier to type and I think I might not need to edit a lot of lines in a lot of files if it can be done.

ln -s /home/httpd/vhosts/mywhoedomainname/httpdocs/ /home/mydomain/www/ does not seem to want to work.

 

[Skade]

Check the owners of the folders and the permissions on them. You prolly need to be root to make the softlinks too

 

[Cranky]

Try it without the slashes at the end, i.e.:

ln -s /home/httpd/vhosts/mywhoedomainname/httpdocs /home/mydomain/www

 

[Clark]

This I was able to figure out.

I logged in as root in SSH and made sure I was in my root directory with cd /.

I then used ln -s /home/mysite /home/httpd/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs

Now I have a shortened path that is very useful in navigating to from the shell and for using inside of files.