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Command Line Basics: Symbolic Links
Video by Addison BerryNovember 23, 2009 - 7:26am
This video shows how to use the magical symbolic link, or symlink. These are basically a handy *nix way to create shortcuts. They come in particularly handy if you want to organize code for your websites outside of the web server's document root and that is the example we use here.
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sym-links are wonderful!
This is an excellent way of maintaining a Drupal site!
I usually keep all my Drupal distributions and contrib modules in /opt/drupal/... on the server, and then sym-link in from each Drupal website on that server so that there is only actually needs to be one copy of Drupal and one copy of each contrib module. That way I can have multiple websites on the server sharing the same code using sym-links, but not locked into the same code as Drupal multisite forces you to do (=upgrade nightmare).
I have created a script called dget which anyone can get from my subversion repository on sourceforge. It automates the process of managing all the symlinks: http://drup.org/dget
huh. where is the video?
huh. where is the video?
Unfortunately it uses
Unfortunately it uses QuickTime. BTW the video is great.
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Thanks Addison
great video, never thought that could be done that way.
to previous poster, click on the tab that says "play"
POOR USABILITY
Yeah, the video was very difficult to find. There are three tabs below the title. One says "play" and another says "download". Not very intuitive at all.
Lullabot: Love you guys. But try some user testing here.
Yep
Trust me, I know it sucks. We are working on a full redesign of the site which will change a lot of things that we don't like about how our videos are done. Unfortunately, you'll just have to hold on until we can knock that out. Thanks for bearing with us and I hope you find the videos useful.
Thanks
Hi Addi,
just wanted to say thanks for your command line basics series.
PS: Andrew Fountain, I'm going to have a look at the SVN links on your own website now. It's a grey area for me that could with a bit more light. If anyone were to do a Subversion Basics videocast series, it would be pretty cool!
:~)