Are you set on having a mounted file system, or are you open to other possibilities? What's the web application server that's serving the web apps? If it's tomcat, there's a way to do a deploy to a remote server. I believe it is a plugin to maven. Or if the IDE is IntelliJ, I think you can do it through that too. If you're interested, let me know, and I'll do a little more digging.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Matthew Nuzum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I use Virtual Box on my laptop to run Ubuntu Server for testing the web apps I write. My plan is to be able to modify my code and refresh my browser to see the change immediately.<div><br></div><div>I'm experimenting with an IDE that runs on my desktop (not in the VM) so I'm exploring ways to share my code from my local dev to the virtualized server. The only hitch is that there is a sub directory in my branch that is a link to a place in the virtualized file system. This folder is used for uploaded and system generated data and we like to keep it out of the branch.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What I've tried that doesn't work:</div><div><br></div><div>Sharing the folder with the virtual machine, mounting it in the machine as a remote filesystem and then trying to create a symlink from the mounted file system. However, virtual box does not support creating symlinks. :-(</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've got a head full of ideas but I'm a bit frustrated because they all seem like messy or insecure hacks. I was wondering if anyone has a suggestions for a good way to do things. The host OS is sometimes Ubuntu sometimes Mac OS.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The obvious solution that works is to use version control or sftp. I'm trying to think of something that just works so that I just hit save and then refresh.</div><div><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>
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