[Cialug] Auto create link in a folder

[David Champion]

Why do you have to link the files? Can't you just link the uploads folder?

-dc

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> Maybe just a script that would just symlink all the files in the live
> upload folder over to the test upload folder?
>
> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>
> > I have a live wordpress site and a staging wordpress site. I have a job
> > that can periodically copy the live site over to staging to keep the test
> > site relatively up to date. However, this site deals with large files and
> > it is wasteful to keep a duplicate copy of them on the same drive.
> >
> > What I’d like to do is create a link for the files in the live site over
> > to staging whenever it is created. I don’t care if the links are soft or
> > hard. For example,
> >
> > If a file is created in /var/www/live/wp-content/uploads automatically
> > create a link to it in /var/www/staging/wp-content/uploads.
> >
> > I can create a batch job that does this every so often, but is there an
> > easy way to have it happen automatically? I seem to remember a service
> that
> > will watch file for file modifications and do something on demand. That
> > seems like an efficient way to do it. I was thinking the service was
> called
> > iwatch or similar, but searching for that only shows me stuff about the
> > Apple Watch.
> >
> > Here’s what I don’t want to do:
> > I don’t want to symlink the uploads folder. I want to be able to upload
> > files to staging without them going to live.
> >
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