Can aliases (shortcuts) be used in Zen Cart?

23 Aug 2006, 12:43 PM

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Can aliases (shortcuts) be used in Zen Cart?

Can aliases (shortcuts) be used in Zen Cart?
I'm looking to put my downloadable products onto another hard drive, but if I place and alias of the folder inside the download folder, it doesn't 'point' to it. Any suggestions?

thanks,
Jeff

Jeff Michaels,
pres of Musical Creations Ltd.

23 Aug 2006, 1:02 PM

drbyte

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Re: Can aliases (shortcuts) be used in Zen Cart?

Zen Cart uses symlinks to furnish downloadable files to customers.

In terms of allowing to access symlinks for its normal processing, I don't see why it would be a problem as long as the webserver user is allowed access by the filesystem permissions to follow the symlink to get the files.

Zen Cart simply looks at it as a file. If the symlink allows it to be delivered by the FS, then it should be fine. If that's not happening, it could be a server/FS permissions problem that your host may be able to help you with.

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