How to accomidate virtual directories?
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ocPortal 9.0.41
IIS 8.5
I need to move my /uploads/downloads/ folder to another drive due to lack of capacity on the origional drive. I have duplicated the content of the /downloads/ folder to a new drive and created a virtual folder named downloads in the /uploads/ folder after renamed the old folder.
The folder URL itself is proven functional by adding a temporary index.php file to it but all download links from the site return a 404.
Can anyone help as I wish to retain this format once the site is upgraded to Composr?
TQ
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Moderator
The downloads are served via dload.php, which reads the filesystem, not the URLs.
Try using mklink to map uploads/downloads to your new location.
mklink
Reference article for the mklink command, which creates a directory or file symbolic or hard link.
I've never used this on a web server context, but I have used it for other things and it's worked well.
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Chris Graham said
Hi,
The downloads are served via dload.php, which reads the filesystem, not the URLs.
Try using mklink to map uploads/downloads to your new location.mklink
Reference article for the mklink command, which creates a directory or file symbolic or hard link.
I've never used this on a web server context, but I have used it for other things and it's worked well.
From “Post #6016”, 14th May 2020
Thank You Chris!
mklink seems to be working like a charm.
TQ
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