How do I point Websites at the old /Library/Webserver/Documents? I've still got a lot of data there.

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How do I point Websites at the old /Library/Webserver/Documents? I've still got a lot of data there.

From much earlier versions of Mac OS, I had quite a bit of data cached in the then-standard folders /Library/Webserver/Documents and ~/Sites/.

What's the standard practice for dealing with those other folders when moving up to Server? I've got experimental installs of Joomla, Drupal, Groupware, and a Dokuwiki I would really hate to lose. The Alias command seemed the most appropriate way to point at those folders, but that didn't work at all.

Posted on Jul 26, 2012 3:35 AM

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Jul 26, 2012 8:46 AM in response to Territan

Addendum: I may have found a solution that is quick (good), easy (good) and reveals a hideous and pernicious security hole within the OS X Server environment (bad).

sudo ln -s /Library/Webserver/Documents/dokuwiki/ /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default/dokuwiki

I had that idea when I got into Terminal and did an ls -la in the /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default folder. Every default.html.xx was an alias to a localized default.html within the Server.Appl bundle itself.

On the one hand, this is very good in that it allows me to bypass all that Aliasing within the Server app itself.

On the other hand, this allows me to bypass all that Aliasing within the Server app. Did I just break the warranty?

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