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Monty
06-30-2003, 09:28 AM
one of my accounts is asking for a symbolic link to the secure portion of their site to a /store directory in the www section. First question, is this OK with FutureQuest? If so, then how do I go about doing it? I found 2 threads searching that touched on it, but they were not clear in the process (at least not understandable to me.

TIA,

Mont

Rich
06-30-2003, 09:55 AM
If you have some secure pages located at:

/big/dom/xdomain/www/Secure_Server/mystore

Then you can provide a symbolic link to this are from the non-secure area:

cd /big/dom/xdomain/www
ln -s Secure_Server/mystore mystore

Now "mystore" is available in NON-SSL mode using this URL:

http://www.mydomain.com/mystore/

or in SSL mode:

https://secure.mydomain.com/mystore/

Note that you cannot create a symbolic link from within the secure area to somewhere outside it as this would break the SSL connection.

Monty
06-30-2003, 11:15 AM
thanks Rich, let me get with my guy and see if that's what he is wanting for his store.

Mont