Comments on: Recent Downtime http://www.techjawa.com/2009/05/11/recent-downtime/ www.techjawa.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:17:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Corey http://www.techjawa.com/2009/05/11/recent-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-2649 Corey Tue, 12 May 2009 12:12:33 +0000 http://www.techjawa.com/?p=627#comment-2649 <a href="#comment-2648" rel="nofollow">@Corey</a>, My directory structure didn't play out too well... anyhow it was like: Dir1/Dir2/Dir1/Dir2/Dir1/Dir2/Dir1... etc... @Corey,

My directory structure didn’t play out too well… anyhow it was like:

Dir1/Dir2/Dir1/Dir2/Dir1/Dir2/Dir1… etc…

]]> By: Corey http://www.techjawa.com/2009/05/11/recent-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-2648 Corey Tue, 12 May 2009 12:11:39 +0000 http://www.techjawa.com/?p=627#comment-2648 Oh, very nice. I gave it a look over, and I can probably really use it at work. The big problem I ran into with this site, is I have: Dir1 - filled w/ this site Dir2 - empty So I didn't have SSH access at first, so I asked the HostGator techs to make the symlink. I wanted them to remove Dir2 since it was empty, and make it a symlink to Dir1 - this was just for organizational purposes. Well, they didn't do that, they made a symlink TO Dir2 within Dir1 and so on... so it looked like: Dir1 |-Dir2 |-Dir1 |Dir2 |-Dir1 and it kept going. In trying to correct the problem I know if you just RM a symlink from the command line, there's nothing wrong with that, it just breaks the link. Well trying to remove it via FTP actually tries to delete what's inside that directory, and in return deleting Dir2, which had Dir1 inside of it, deleted nearly my entire site before I canceled it. Oh, very nice. I gave it a look over, and I can probably really use it at work.

The big problem I ran into with this site, is I have:

Dir1 – filled w/ this site
Dir2 – empty

So I didn’t have SSH access at first, so I asked the HostGator techs to make the symlink. I wanted them to remove Dir2 since it was empty, and make it a symlink to Dir1 – this was just for organizational purposes.

Well, they didn’t do that, they made a symlink TO Dir2 within Dir1 and so on… so it looked like:

Dir1
|-Dir2
|-Dir1
|Dir2
|-Dir1

and it kept going. In trying to correct the problem I know if you just RM a symlink from the command line, there’s nothing wrong with that, it just breaks the link. Well trying to remove it via FTP actually tries to delete what’s inside that directory, and in return deleting Dir2, which had Dir1 inside of it, deleted nearly my entire site before I canceled it.

]]> By: Chris http://www.techjawa.com/2009/05/11/recent-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-2645 Chris Tue, 12 May 2009 04:15:58 +0000 http://www.techjawa.com/?p=627#comment-2645 I wrote an article on how to get around this limitation, provided you have shell access: http://shiningpolaris.com/2009/03/27/how-to-give-a-chrootd-ftpd-access-to-outside-folders/ However, FileZilla supports SCP so the point is somewhat moot. Still, the option exists :) I wrote an article on how to get around this limitation, provided you have shell access: http://shiningpolaris.com/2009/03/27/how-to-give-a-chrootd-ftpd-access-to-outside-folders/

However, FileZilla supports SCP so the point is somewhat moot. Still, the option exists :)

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