Problem with symlink

Tariq911

• March 19, 2014 14:18

Hi I have symlink's on my site from years. Lately I noticed that if I clicked on the symlink using ftp I will get error: 550 test: No such file or directory But on my web the symlink still work fine. But the normal symlink that comes with my site like @www for public_html is working fine. I think that mean the way I made my symlink's is not working anymore with FTP. I am using this command: ln -s PathToFolder/Folder Folder Please advice Best regards, Tariq

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  vanessa

  • March 20, 2014 00:18

  Try using the full path when making the symlink. FTP is weird like that.

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 20, 2014 13:03

  Hello :) It's possible you are noticing a change that started with cPanel version 11.40. The 'virtual chroot' feature of Pure-FTPd is now disabled by default. Thus, chroot becomes "/" for symlinks. For example, a symlink to /etc, will now point to /home/$username/public_html/ftpuser/etc. Thank you.

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  kdean

  • March 20, 2014 18:26

  Also check to see if the symlink is owned by the user. If you were shelled in as root it may be owned by root. chown -h username symlink

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