web root path - confused with symlinking please help

Discussion in 'General' started by tsmaudio, Jun 28, 2016.

  1. tsmaudio

    tsmaudio Member

    Hi peeps
    I have this scenario which i'm sure has been answered but after much searching i can't find a clear explanation of what i need, so i,m hoping some kind person will instruct me so i can learn something at the same time.

    I have an application that was running on a Plesk hosting environment and now hopefully for testing & further development i would like to install it on ISPConfig 3 server.
    As we know the web root path is different between these panels and the paths are coded in the application so we need a solution to change the web root path, as changing the paths in the application files is not practical. So i understand it's symlinks that need to be used.
    If someone could give me an idiots step by step on how to do this as I have had no luck trying myself for many hours now. :(

    So original web root path in application files is: /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/
    And currently IPSConfig 3 web root path is: /var/www/mydomain.com/web/ or also the same /var/www/clients/client1/web12/web (I find this confusing as to which one of these paths to use with ISPconfig, does it not matter?

    Many thanks in advance
     
  2. Jesse Norell

    Jesse Norell ISPConfig Developer Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    Run as root:
    Code:
    mkdir -p /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/
    ln -s ../../clients/client1/web12/web /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs
    When logged into a shell, /var/www/mydomain.com/ is easier to remember; however /var/www/clients1/web12/web should be used in web apps/config files, as it won't change (eg. if you change your domain name).
     
  3. tsmaudio

    tsmaudio Member

    Thanks Jesse
     

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