symlink

I'm running into an issue using xsendfile with my Rails 3 app. I'm using capistrano to manage deployments and in each release, there is a symbolic link to the shared/assets dir (e.g. /var/www/site/releases/1234/assets => /var/www/site/shared/assets). The problem is that that XSendFile doesn't seem to follow the symbolic links. In my apache logs, I'm seeing the following error: The given path was above the root path: xsendfile: unable to find file: /var/www/site/releases/20110406205607/assets/pdfs/2/original/test.pdf I have the XSendFilePath config set as XSendFilePath /var/www/site/shared

I have an object which I would like to address using different keys without actually copying the object itself, like a symlink in Linux. Does Amazon S3 provide such a thing? S3 does not support the notion of a symlink, where one object key is treated as an alias for a different object key. (You've probably heard this before: S3 is not a filesystem. It's an object store). If you are using the static web site hosting feature, there is a partial emulation of this capability, with object-level redirects: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/how-to-page-redirect.html This causes requests

I have a big (more than 1000 files) VS C# project in git. I need to create a small demo project and use ten files from the big project. To create this new project, I added ten files with mklink (symlink) from the big project to the small. All changes in corresponding files in the big and small project are identical. Now I need to add the small project to a different (my own) git repo. But symlink will not add in git : (error: readlink("X.cs"): Function not implemented) How to add the X.cs (symlink) file in git as a regular file? I need all changes in X.cs (in big project) to be moved to X.cs

I had pushed a project from Linux to Bitbucket and then cloned it on Windows. Turns out there were two symlinks, which appeared as textfiles on Windows. Since I knew where they should point to, I replaced them by copies of their destination files, committed and pushed. Now the Bitbucket repository looks okay when I look at it from their web interface. However a git clone on my Unix machine gives me two messages like: error: unable to create symlink ... (File name too long) and the two files, which were symlinks previously are absent. I tried cloning into /tmp/... to get shorter filenames, but

I use Windows 8 and installed Virtualbox so i can access to a Linux (Ubuntu) System. The most i still did to do this - so at this moment i have a working Virtualbox with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. In my case i need this Virtualbox with Linux for meteor. The problem: meteor uses nodejs and so i need to have symlinks access (i think its symlinks - i read a few about it) Reference: How to run meteor app inside an Ubuntu VrtualBox and edit using an editor on a Windows host? He describes the same problem i have now: Error: EROFS, read-only file system '/media/sf_Shared/Dropbox/dev_uhurajr/chat/.meteor/local