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Mr Pheer · 06-03-2008, 08:13 PM

I have a bunch of new websites being built and alot of them use the same images

So instead of uploading these same images to every website, I want to like make a main/central image directory and then make an image directory in the website folder and have it linked to the main/central image directory

I know this can be done but cant remember how.. someone help me out?

tical · 06-03-2008, 08:31 PM

ln -s real_dir virtual_dir

rowan · 06-03-2008, 08:42 PM

You may also be able to this with mod_rewrite, which would mean you don't need to manually set up the symlinks for each site. One possible catch, I'm not sure whether mod_rewrite will let you read outside of the site's htdocs directory structure.

Mr Pheer · 06-03-2008, 08:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tical

ln -s real_dir virtual_dir

that worked... thanks

06-03-2008, 08:13 PM	#1
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06-03-2008, 08:31 PM	#2
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06-03-2008, 08:42 PM	#3
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	You may also be able to this with mod_rewrite, which would mean you don't need to manually set up the symlinks for each site. One possible catch, I'm not sure whether mod_rewrite will let you read outside of the site's htdocs directory structure.