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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Windows has an equivalent symlinks
functionality, but its not present in S.O. by default.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You need to download a small .exe to do the
trick.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Feijó</DIV>
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<A title=kb@2bits.com href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">Khalid Baheyeldin</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=development@drupal.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, December 09, 2007 1:33
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [development] Files
directory on installation usability fix notquite usable. ; )</DIV>
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size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR>Perhaps a decoupling of the
paths from the domain is in order.<BR><BR>There is a way to do it today with
symlinks: under "sites/" we have s1, s2, s3, <BR>...etc. One directory per
site. Then files would be "sites/s1/files". A symbolic<BR>link then makes s1
be <A href="http://site1.example.com">site1.example.com</A>, and s2 <A
href="http://www.example.com">www.example.com </A>and s3<BR>is <A
href="http://example3.com">example3.com</A>, ...etc.<BR><BR>If you then
decide to use .net instead of .com for s1, the file paths do not
change<BR>at all. They remain the same.<BR><BR>What this does is have one
level of indirection, so we don't run into these <BR>hard coded domains in
file path names.<BR><BR>Maybe we should formalize that as the advocated
solution. This works for all<BR>UNIX like systems. Not sure about those
hosting/developing on Windows
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