bo1990

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Hi there everyone.

Now, I've been using apache on both Linux but primarily on Windows Server 03 and Ive got a couple of problems I'm hoping you could help me with.

Firstly Im trying to find a cheap, effecient video streamer and for the moment I've settled with embedding Windows Media Player via html into the webpage, while linux users will have trouble viewing it, it's not that much of a problem as I'm the only person in my department who uses linux and thats on a completely unrelated server.

Secondly, I have everything saved in the 'htdocs' folder, but that drive is getting very full very fast and there is a second drive which has around 250gb of free space, so I was wondering if it was possible to simply have the video files saved on the secondary disk but have them load like they were in htdocs, if that makes sense.

Failing that, how hard is it to just move the entire website/server/etc over to the larger disk? I've tried once before and crashed the site and had to restore everything, so I was wondering if there is an easier meth od I'm missing out on.

If you can help me it would be very much appreciated.

rylan76

Well, you might try making symlinks.

I. e. you create a very small "file" on the disc in the htdocs folder that "points to" the actual file on the other 250gb open disc.

see

man ln

i. e. in your local /usr/local/apache2/htdocs folder do

ln -s /mnt/250gbdisc/file.wmv file.wmv

This will create a symlink called "file.wmv" in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs that actually "points to" /mnt/250gbdisc/file.wmv. Applications (like Apache) that access "file.wmv" should now hopefully be unable to distinguish where the "actual" file is located.