auto-route and symbolic links

[Gipetto]

Okay, I searched for an existing topic first but maybe not hard enough.

The situation is that auto-route won't work with my server setup because the public_html directory is a symbolic link.

ie:
home is: /user/home/me/
Within home is a link public_html that points to: /usr/www/me/

I need this structure to keep all inc files out of the web root, but can only put them in my home (I don't control the server setup). Is there any way to get auto-route to follow the public_html link? The error message uses the correct full path, including sym link, when telling me the directory it can't access.

The error I'm getting is:

The attempt failed because the server was unable to process it
Error uploading: myImg.png
From: /Users/Shared/me/www/public_html/images/ui
To: /user/home/me/public_html/images/ui

Dual browse works fine with this setup, as an example... so I'm not sure why auto-route won't.

[JD]

Interesting. I will check into this.

Are you using FTP or SFTP?

[Gipetto]

SFTP

Thanks!

[JD]

I can't reproduce any problem here. It seems to work fine with the symbolic link as the initial auto-route directory, and all sub folders too.

Maybe your server is sensitive to Yummy's default behavior of resolving symbolic links. Try un-checking the 'Resolve symlinks' checkbox in the Server Options panel of the Preferences.

[Gipetto]

Unfortunately that didn't help. I still get the same error.

And the symlink isn't the initial directory, its the 2nd level.
I log directly into my home directory, then the symlink is to the web directory.

The ls output for the link in my root login directory is:

Code:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root      users     23B Nov 26 15:03 public_html -> /usr/www/users/me

Server is FreeBSD.

Thanks for your help!

[JD]

Sorry, I wasn't clear - I tried having the symlink at various levels, from the initial directory, then second and third.

I'm at a loss with this one. Even if I replicate your paths and symlink exactly, both local and remote, it still works for me. I'm using the SFTP server built into Mac OS X, for what it's worth.

So, I'm not sure if this is a bug with Yummy FTP or some quirk of your server. Is there any chance I can connect to your server to try to repeat the problem? Contact me via the support email if that's possible : support at yummysoftware dot com