Capistrano Symlinks Being Cached?

Question

I\'ve been setting up PHP deployments with Capistrano on CentOS 6 and have run into an interesting issue. The way capistrano works, it sets up folders like this:

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Answer 1

I can't verify this, but it seems that there is some unpredictable behaviour with Apache following / caching the old location of symlinks:

• Is there a way to mimic symlink behavior with an apache configuration?
• Case Against Using Symlinks For Code Promotion

The only thing that would absolutely clear up this issue was to cycle Apache, which we would prefer not to do on every deployment. -- Mike Brittain

He suggests moving the whole directory, instead of updating the symlink.