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Topic : Creating a symlink / dropbox / virtual hosts

Posted By: matsaukeo on April 10, 2014, 7:59 pm

Hi

Sorry if this is something that should be simple. Let me start by describing what I'm trying to achieve: I'd like to have my websites all hosted in a dropbox folder in such a way that I can change the web address and change between them easily.

I could do this with xammp but can't seem to work it out.

Firstly, I've tried to do this with one of the sites on dropbox by editing the https.conf file and updating the document root. But whenever I edit that, I can't seem to restart apache - the button remains greyed out.

Reading around more, it sounds as though I shouldn't be editing that file anyway and I should be creating a symlink. I've searched for a simple explanation on how to do this but can't do it. I've recently swapped from PC to Mac (mavericks macbook pro) so perhaps I'm just getting confused.

I'd really appreciated if someone could help me get up and running with this and explain the steps in an easy to understand way.

VERY much appreciated!

Posted By: tidus on April 12, 2014, 8:06 am | Post: 1

Hi,

I won't recommend to change the Ampps configuration. Although we haven't tried working with Dropbox yet, so you can change if you know what you are doing.

Try this:

Code
mv /Applications/AMPPS/www /dropbox/www

ln -s /dropbox/www /Applications/AMPPS/www

You can also create domains and alias to work with domains from AMPPS Enduser Panel.

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Posted By: matsaukeo on April 12, 2014, 9:04 pm | Post: 2

Thanks for replying. I've done this and it works (although to be honest I'm not entirely sure what I've done as I tend to not use terminal!)

Posted By: 10sfit on August 22, 2014, 9:14 am | Post: 3

Quote From : tidus April 12, 2014, 8:06 am

Hi,

I won't recommend to change the Ampps configuration. Although we haven't tried working with Dropbox yet, so you can change if you know what you are doing.

Try this:

Code
mv /Applications/AMPPS/www /dropbox/www

ln -s /dropbox/www /Applications/AMPPS/www

You can also create domains and alias to work with domains from AMPPS Enduser Panel.

Hello, Can you tell me what do you mean by creating a symlink means?

What is a sysmlink?

I am on mac, is this something done in terminal? I am pretty good a copying and pasting into terminal. Just need the proper code.

My goal is to have ampps on two computer and have all files stay in sync via dropbox. Not sure how this is done correctly. I understand adding Ammps folder to dropbox but not sure what you mean by creating symlink.

Also is any other step I should be aware of when attempting. I have not installed Ammpps yet until I get conformation on how to properly configure. Thanks for the help