Different filestore location

[DJ Molicious]

So from the reading i've done, it is not advised just to change the path of the filestore location in config.php?

I have a Drobo that i'm using as storage space for RS. RS is installed on the boot drive of the server and i just want all of the resources to be uploaded onto the Drobo rather than the original location of the filestore folder on the boot drive. Do i really have to create a symlink for the filestore folder or can i just change the path of the filestore folder in config.php.

Many Thanks!

M.

[Paul Manno]

You can change it, but you will probably have many permissions
problems in accessing the volume. Symlink is the easiest method.

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[DJ Molicious]

So basically the actual real folder should be on the Drobo and a symlink for it should be placed inside of the RS installation directory, right?

Tanks,

M.

[Paul Manno]

Yes. I'm guessing you're connecting the drobo via USB, so it will be
somewhere like:

/media/drobo

Then you just create a symlink in the root RS directory:

ln -s /media/drobo filestore

Then you may need to do:

chown -h www-data:www-data filestore

To change the owner of the link to www-data (if ubuntu, or apache if
centos/rhel).

and:

chown -R www-data:www-data filestore

to make www-data the owner of all subdirs of filestore.

[DJ Molicious]

Ok, I did create the symlink, moved it to the root of the RS folder but when i try to change the owner of the link it keeps on telling me:

chown: www-data: invalid argument

Do you know how i can go about correcting this? I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.8 using the terminal to achieve this.

Many Thanks,

M.

[Paul Manno]

Ah. I don't know who the web server runs as on Mac OS X. On Ubuntu,
it's www-data, on CentOS or RedHat it's apache. Are you running
apache as your web server? Try using apache instead of www-data and
see if it works out (unless you know what user is running your web
server).

[Søren Grønning Iversen]

Try changing ownership of the actual directory symlinked to the filestore location. This should work. Had it been a hardlink, ownership changes would reflect equally, no matter at what 'end' you made the change, but symlinks points from the symlinked location to the destination and as such is separated from the file or folder it is pointing at.

[DJ Molicious]

Yes, on Mac OS X, It's Apache. I'll give that a try.

Thanks!

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[Tom Gleason]

something like
ps aux | grep apache

or

ps aux | grep httpd 

should help you discover the apache user

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[DJ Molicious]

Should it be more straight forward to just make the filestore directory available to anyone by doing a chmod 777 to it?

Thanks,

M.

[DJ Molicious]

It's pretty much what the install instructions says on the wiki page:

mkdir filestore
chmod 777 filestore 
chmod -R 777 include

Thanks,

M.

[Tom Gleason]

that should work.