Symlinking problem

Question

Hey dudes.i am having this problem while symlinking. I have successfully deployed a ruby on rails application on server and all the migrations are done. It is deployed with phusion passenger. The application is in /home/username/rails_apps/myapp. I want to symlink it to a subdomain in my site. the path to subdomain is /home/username/public_html/subdom. So i used this command to symlink it. ln -s '/home/username/rails_apps/myapp/public/' '/home/username/public_html/subdom'

when it is done, it creates http://subdom.maxsy.net/public but it is supposed to be accessible by http://subdom.maxsy.net/

anybody have a sensible explanation for this problem? thanks

Answer 1

If /home/username/public_html/subdom already exists as a directory, the symlink does not replace the directory: instead, you get /home/username/public_html/subdom/public as a symlink pointing to /home/username/rails_app/myapp.

Since it appears that you really do want to replace /home/username/public_html/subdom by the symlink, you must first remove the /home/username/public_html/subdom directory before running ln -s /home/username/rails_app/myapp /home/username/public_html/subdom.

Answer 2

I think you just have one extra /, and possibly an existing subdom

rm -f /home/username/public_html/subdom
ln -s /home/username/rails_apps/myapp/public /home/username/public_html/subdom