On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 20:51 -0400, Neil Cherry wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 13:37 +0100, Paul Ward wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me how to link a file from from my home directory > >> to /var/www/html so it can be a acccessed remotley. > >> > >> I used the following to link the file which worked fine. > >> > >> # ln -s myfile /var/www/html/ > > > > That's linking a file to a directory? > > No it's a link to a file, it's in that directory because the > directory already exists. The file name will be myfile. > BTW, does the OP have Apache configured to follow links? > When I try the above ln command on my machine indeed a file is created in the directory. But if I go to the directory and do a ls myfile I get an error as follows: ls: myfile: Too many levels of symbolic links ======================================================================= The means-and-ends moralists, or non-doers, always end up on their ends without any means. -- Saul Alinsky ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
