Try doing this from the actual website http folder, not the users. You're trying to make a link from inside the website, not inside the users folder.
- Ryan --=-- :: Ryan Verner :: xfesty/irc.whackpack.com :: :: ICQ :: 76626240 :: :: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :: :: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian McCabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 7:25 AM Subject: RE: [cobalt-developers] Replacing /~user with /user | Tried what you suggested, but I think I may have gone wrong somewhere. | | I went into the users folder and typed the -ln -s ~username username | | I think that is where I went wrong. Should I have done it in that users | folder, just beneath that users folder in the main users folder listing all | of them, or further below that. | | I know have a structure as such: /users/username/ with another two folders | of username and web, but inside this username I have another folder with | username and web folders, and within that username I have another username | and web folder. | | Oooooooooops | | With this though, I still can not get to access domain.com/username as | opposed to domain.com /~username | | Do I need to reboot for it to work or have I totally mucked this up and any | ideas on how I safely remove these additional folders of username and web | inside the username and web sub-folders.... | | Thanks Ian | | --> -----Original Message----- | --> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ryan Verner | --> Sent: 13 January 2002 17:43 | --> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --> Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Replacing /~user with /user | --> | --> | --> Sure... | --> | --> telnet/ssh into your cobalt, cd to the correct http serving | --> folder of the | --> site you're interested in, and do this: | --> | --> ln -s ~user user | --> | --> Replacing user with the username, of course. | --> | --> This of course requires that your site DOES follow SymLinks (Options | --> SymLinks in your apache config), which I'm not sure on your particular | --> Cobalt is enabled or not. Give it a try, in any case. | --> | --> - Ryan | --> | --> --=-- | --> | --> :: Ryan Verner :: xfesty/irc.whackpack.com :: | --> :: ICQ :: 76626240 :: | --> :: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :: | --> :: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :: | --> | --> ----- Original Message ----- | --> From: "Ian McCabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | --> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | --> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 1:52 AM | --> Subject: [cobalt-developers] Replacing /~user with /user | --> | --> | --> | Hi all, | --> | | --> | Does anyone know how or what config file(s) need changing to | --> get rid of | --> the | --> | ~ that apears infront of the users login name when used for a user web | --> area? | --> | | --> | i.e. by default the RaQ system has say: | --> | | --> | www.mydomain.com/~userloginname1 | --> | www.mydomain.com/~userloginname2 by default. | --> | | --> | I would like if possible to change this to: | --> | | --> | www.mydomain.com/userloginname1 | --> | www.mydomain.com/userloginname2 | --> | | --> | Any ideas, suggestions or possible solutions would be very much | --> | appreciated..... | --> | | --> | Ian | --> | | --> | | --> | _______________________________________________ | --> | cobalt-developers mailing list | --> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --> | http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers | --> | | --> | --> _______________________________________________ | --> cobalt-developers mailing list | --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | --> http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers | | | _______________________________________________ | cobalt-developers mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers | _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
