a couple days ago i installed mandrake 8.2 on my computer, making it a dual boot with win2k prof. Everything works great (after a couple trivial problems) and my friend mentioned something i could do but he's not around to tell me how to do it (gone for a couple weeks).

i have been running apache on my win2k partition for a long time, and i have everything all set up there. my friend said i could make a link so that when people go to http://my_site/gallery that it will point to my windows partition. it's set up so that /c/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs/gallery is the windows path, but when i try using "ln" it yells at me for trying to make multiple links without the last arg being a directory. i'm new to making links, so what is wrong with the following?:

ln -s /c/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs/gallery/index.php index


side note: my win2k partition is fat32 so i can access the files (i listen to my mp3s with XMMS from it just fine)

Thanks for any help at all - i have searched many forums and linux sites but haven't come across a solution to this problem.

you use it like this

ln -s /path/filename /path/link

the space in your file / folder name will cause a problem. put the name in quotes

example

mkdir test folder

will create two folders, one named test and the other named folder

mkdir "test folder" will make a single folder with that name.

ok, that made the link correctly. now how would i go about getting that to redirect to the link location when someone views my site? (sorry for this newbie-ness )

usually the DocumentRoot for apache is in /var/www/html

if this is your case then link the html folder to the folder where your index file is. requires moving or removing the current html folder.

ln -s /PathToWebsiteRoot /var/www/html

or just make the folder where the site is the DocumentRoot for apache.