Posted by Toby A Inkster on 02/13/07 15:58

Aggelos wrote:

> Is it possible to run a script that will be used from all the websites
> on the server outside of the web dir ?

I'm not 100% sure what you're asking for, but it sounds to me like
symbolic links might be the answer.

Say you have three sites hosted on a server, example.com, example.org
and... you guessed it... example.net. These are hosted in the following
directories on the server:

/var/www/vhosts/example.com/
/var/www/vhosts/example.org/
/var/www/vhosts/example.net/

Now, you install some flashy-super-web-based-app into, say:

/var/www/apps/FSWBA/

and you want to make this available as:

http://example.com/FSWBA/
http://example.org/flashy/
http://example.net/flashy-app/

Then all you need to do is create three symbolic links, using the
following commands at the command line:

ln -s /var/www/apps/FSWBA/ /var/www/vhosts/example.com/FSWBA/
ln -s /var/www/apps/FSWBA/ /var/www/vhosts/example.org/flashy/
ln -s /var/www/apps/FSWBA/ /var/www/vhosts/example.net/flashy-app/

And you're done. (Note: you may need to configure Apache to be able to
follow symbolic links, as this ability is often disabled for security
reasons.)

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