[solved] Symlinking directories

[Banana Lord.]

I want to sync the contents of /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache/*.dua to /home/bananatree/html/redirect/cache/. I did symlink it, but it kept reporting a 404 file not found error - did I miss something?

 

[NiteWave]

maybe permission issue.
check
#ls -ald /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache
#ls -ald /home/bananatree/html/redirect/cache

 

[Banana Lord.]

maybe permission issue.
check
#ls -ald /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache
#ls -ald /home/bananatree/html/redirect/cache

 

[NiteWave]

I did symlink it

can you give an example how you did it?

 

[Banana Lord.]

can you give an example how you did it?

ln -s /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache/*.dua /home/bananatree/html/sdb/redirect/cache/

 

[NiteWave]

ok. how about the parent directories' permission?
#ls -ald /home/
#ls -ald /home/banana/
#ls -ald /home/banana/srcds/
#ls -ald /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/
#ls -ald /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/

 

[Banana Lord.]

ok. how about the parent directories' permission?
#ls -ald /home/
#ls -ald /home/banana/
#ls -ald /home/banana/srcds/
#ls -ald /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/
#ls -ald /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/

 

[NiteWave]

looks like permissions ok. what url return 404 error for example(you can omit the domain name)?

 

[Banana Lord.]

looks like permissions ok. what url return 404 error for example(you can omit the domain name)?

what do you mean? Do you want the full URL of where the file should be?

 

[NiteWave]

full URL is ok, if you think ok to paste here.
or just replace the domain name as domain.com etc.

 

[Banana Lord.]

full URL is ok, if you think ok to paste here.
or just replace the domain name as domain.com etc.

http://bananatree.im/sdb/redirect/cache/6afa5cc7a1de5a0df435669c6fc2a09b.dua

EDIT: The owner of that file is "root", not "banana" or "nobody", I'm assuming that's the issue?

 

[NiteWave]

maybe. the file's permission ?
#ls -ald /home/bananatree/html/redirect/cache/6afa5cc7a1de5a0df435669c6fc2a09b.dua
#ls -ald /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache/6afa5cc7a1de5a0df435669c6fc2a09b.dua

 

[Banana Lord.]

Woah wait, those are two different files. Now it's like it's not symlinking them, did I not symlink it correctly?

 

[NiteWave]

maybe you can create a directory link only, not many file links
instead of:

ln -s /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache/*.dua /home/bananatree/html/sdb/redirect/cache/

just do:
#rm -rf /home/bananatree/html/sdb/redirect/cache/
#ln -s /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache/ /home/bananatree/html/sdb/redirect/cache/

 

[Banana Lord.]

maybe you can create a directory link only, not many file links
instead of:

ln -s /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache/*.dua /home/bananatree/html/sdb/redirect/cache/

just do:
#rm -rf /home/bananatree/html/sdb/redirect/cache/
#ln -s /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache/ /home/bananatree/html/sdb/redirect/cache/

root@us:/home/banana/srcds/orangebox# ln -s /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache/* /home/bananatree/html/sdb/redirect/cache/
root@us:/home/banana/srcds/orangebox# ls /home/bananatree/html/sdb/redirect/cache/       5e8b4e1f2c4da62fa2af9e962201d93f.dua  c231c1542ebf0f1dd9ece322be324cad.dua
6afa5cc7a1de5a0df435669c6fc2a09b.dua

http://bananatree.im/sdb/redirect/cache/6afa5cc7a1de5a0df435669c6fc2a09b.dua

still a 404

EDIT:

root@us:/home/banana/srcds/orangebox# ls -ald /home/bananatree/html/sdb/redirect/cache/6afa5cc7a1de5a0df435669c6fc2a09b.dua
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 81 Sep 11 22:58 /home/bananatree/html/sdb/redirect/cache/6afa5cc7a1de5a0df435669c6fc2a09b.dua -> /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache/6afa5cc7a1de5a0df435669c6fc2a09b.dua

 

[NiteWave]

#ls -ald /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache/6afa5cc7a1de5a0df435669c6fc2a09b.dua
?

 

[Banana Lord.]

root@us:/home/banana/srcds/orangebox# ls -ald /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache/6afa5cc7a1de5a0df435669c6fc2a09b.dua
-rw-r--r-- 1 banana banana 222190 Sep 11 22:58 /home/banana/srcds/orangebox/garrysmod/cache/6afa5cc7a1de5a0df435669c6fc2a09b.dua

 

[NiteWave]

please put a file into redirect/cache and see if still 404.
$touch /home/bananatree/html/sdb/redirect/cache/abc
and check:
http://bananatree.im/sdb/redirect/cache/abc

 

[Banana Lord.]

please put a file into redirect/cache and see if still 404.
$touch /home/bananatree/html/sdb/redirect/cache/abc
and check:
http://bananatree.im/sdb/redirect/cache/abc

that works

so do the other 2 caches that i'm using on a heavy traffic gameserver, it's just the symlinked ones. should I sudo -u banana the symlink? will that make the owners match?

 

[NiteWave]

please try it