Re: sharing directories in virtual hosts

try mount -o bind :-)

On Tuesday 20 August 2002 15:53, Herald van der Breggen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like share some directories (called photos, images, css and js)
> over several virtual hosts, so that e.g. http://virtualhost1/photos and
> http://virtualhost2/photos reflect the same physical directory. I hope
> you can help me....
>
> It looked simple. In de tux document root I did:
>
> mkdir a
> mv /other/place/photos a
> mv /other/place/images a
> etc
>
> and in de virtual host document roots:
>
> cd virtualhost1
> ln -s ../a/photos .
> ln -s ../a/images .
>
> Unfortunately it looks like tux does not handle symbolic links that
> start with "..", neither symbolic links that start with "/".
>
> In the documentation I saw that a security feature is that url's that
> contains a forbidden substring such as ".." will not be served by Tux.
> Does this have something to do with this symbolic link behaviour?
>
> I thought a using normal links, but there are about 350 virtual sites
> that should share the same directories and there thousands of file
> involved. This would make a reliable management of the files difficult.
>
> I thought about using outbound links in html
> (http://photos.virtualhost1/) but there changes to the pages needed for
> that.
>
> What would be a secure way share directories over virtual hosts?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Herald
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