[Cialug] Auto create link in a folder

[Scott Yates]

if you do that, then anything uploaded to test will also appear in the live
and he stated he did not want that.

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 5:16 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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