Creating a symbolic Link to a php file

[MyCollegePost.com]

How do I create a symbolic link to another php file in a different directory?

Currently I have the following:

Directory 'USC' with index.php in it

I want to make another directory 'SDSU' which also has index.php in it, but I want it to a be a link to the index.php in USC. This way changes only have to be made on the main index and they propergate throughout all the different folders.. Thanks guys!

[JZ]

Well, cpanel doesn't have the ability to do this and you do not have access to shell.

So, here we go with perl again.

Create your directory structure and write your code something like this. I just named it test.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

symlink("/home/username/public_html/USC/index.php","/home/usrname/public_html/SDSU/index.php");

You can save it anywhere, I did it in my cgi-bin directory. Make sure you upload in ascii and chmod 755. Just point your browser to www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/test.pl.

Note: you will get an internal server error an no output, but the symbolic link will still be created if everything was done correctly.

-Jay