A quick dumb question..FTP??

[sammyrock]

Ok I noticed that in my Ftp Cgi bin there is a folder Public_html and a www folder,now both have the same info(web site files,etc,),is this taking up more space?by have the same files in both folders?should i just erase the public html folder??Thanks

[requestcode]

No they are both actually the same folder. Public_html points to the www folder. If you delete the www folder it will also delete the files in the public_html folder.

[Ron]

Originally posted by requestcode
If you delete the www folder it will also delete the files in the public_html folder.

Exactly! And vice versa, too!

If you delete any single file in either it will be gone in the other as well.

They don't take up any additional space.

-Ron.

BTW, the www directory is a sybolic link and points to the public_html directory.

[sammyrock]

Thank you very much! I didnt know,i almost deleted the public html folder...glad i didnt.Thank God for this forum.

[lvzardoz]

Originally posted by requestcode
No they are both actually the same folder. Public_html points to the www folder. If you delete the www folder it will also delete the files in the public_html folder.

Well, technically that is not correct, at least within the SSH shell.

You should not delete the 'www' directory, however within SSH, if you only delete the 'www' directory, it does NOT delete the files within the 'public_html' directory (unless that is what you specify).

> rm www (does NOT delete files, just deletes the symbolic link)

> rm -fr www (deletes link and files within www AND public_html)

Regardless of the technicality, do NOT delete the www folder.

[Ron]

Well, you're correct -- sort of.
Where "requestcode" wrote: "If you delete the www folder "
I INTERPRETED that to mean deleting files, not to actually removing the directory entry. My bad.

picky picky picky....

1) I just TRIED this:

mkdir temp
cd temp
mkdir a
ln -s a b
cd b
echo hiya >file1
cd ..
ls -l
[[result:
a
b -> a
]]
rm -rf b

ls -l
[[result:
a
]]

ls a
[[result:
file1
]]
ln -s a b
ls -l
[[result:
a
b -> a
]]

cd b
rm file1
cd ..
ls a
[[result:
]]

I, too, would have expected the results you described, but actually testing it shows otherwise.

2) I don't think that SSH is actually a shell...? I thought we used to run bash and now we have a layer called jailshell over that...

[CeleronXL]

'www' is merely a shortcut. public_html is the folder

[Ron]

CeleronXL with the 8088-like rapidfire response...

I knew there was a reason you were banned!
How are ya, you old Aletia cust. What server are you on now?
-Ron.

[CeleronXL]

Originally posted by Ron
CeleronXL with the 8088-like rapidfire response...

I knew there was a reason you were banned!
How are ya, you old Aletia cust. What server are you on now?
-Ron.

Hehe.

I'm good. I'm doing well over on Nitrogen. Where are you now?

[Ron]

I've got sites on mercury and neon.