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Asked: 2026-05-31T09:46:20+00:00

Ok, I am trying to create a symbolic link using php symlink() function, but

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Ok, I am trying to create a symbolic link using php symlink() function, but am not fully understanding it. Here is what the issue is.

I have several folders on a network share that has been mounted in the following location:

/home/metaimage
/home/opmadbexports

Now, I need to symlink these inside of a drupal installation located at the following location:

/home/opmadbdev/html/

I’m unsure of how to do this. FollowSymLinks is on. I just need to code to create a symbolic link and then kill the symbolic link.

EDIT EDIT EDIT

/home/metaimage AND /home/opmadbexports

are both outside the DOCUMENT_ROOT. Not sure if that would be causing me the issues I’m having. Perhaps an alias is a better idea?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok, I got it all figured out. While roychri was on the right track, what I ended up doing was mounting the folders inside the web root, but using .htaccess to disable php. I needed to avoid backing up all the files once they were mounted, seeing as there are a ton of files.

    Once that was done, I was able to use the scripts I had previously written in order to complete the process.

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