At 9:08 PM -0500 9/3/02, Vidiot wrote:
> > I'm clear on the concept of symbolic linking, but in practice
>>I seem to be having a problem ...
>>
>> I've got a client that screwed up some print advertising and
>>listed the wrong directory name. Instead of "/abc", they called it
>>"/ABC" (all caps). My "fix" is to create a new (all caps) directory
>>and symbolically link that new directory to the correct (all
>>lower-case) one. However, I'm doing something wrong.
>>
>> I've tried the following command:
>>
>> ln -s abc/index.html ABC
>>
>> The resulting output (ls -l ABC) is ...
>>
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root client 14 Sep 3 17:59
>>index.html -> abc/index.html
>>
>> The creation of the symbolic link seems to have created the
>>"index.html" file in "ABC". However, the browser doesn't render this
>>link properly. I still get a "Parent Directory" screen when accessing
>>"www.client.com/ABC/".
>>
>> What am I doing wrong??
>
>You created the directory. Bad. Makes things not work as expected :-)
>
>Do the following:
>
> rm -r ABC
> ln -s abc ABC
>
>Do this in the path that contains the "abc" directory.
YES! ... thank you!! I knew what it needed to look like ...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root client 3 Sep 3 21:01 ABC -> abc
... but I couldn't figure out HOW to get there. Thanks very
much for helping me twist my brain the correct direction. ;-)
Patrick Beart
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