I am looking for a good short-term solution to storage space concerns on my website. Currently, I have all uploaded files (flash video, images, etc.) inside the 'files' directory in my web root (/home/account/public_html/files).
That directory is located on my high-speed main hard drive (two mirrored 74 GB 15k SCSI drive).
I have another drive with much more capacity (300 GB), but spinning at 10k rpm (so still fast, but not as good for random reads/writes as the main drive). The entire drive is mounted at /backup
Right now I'm just using it as a backup volume. I would like to create a symlink from my /home/account/public_html/files folder to /backup/files, and have all files reside on the second drive.
However, if someone accesses a file at http://www.example.com/files/filename.jpg, would it still work if I symlinked to the second drive? (Basically, would Apache/PHP automatically know to follow the symlink for that directory?).
I'm beginning to run out of space on the main drive, and I can't get the budget to upgrade. I'm running CentOS 5.3, Apache 2.2.x, PHP 5.2.13.
If you have
Options FollowSymLinksset globally, or for that virtual host, or for the parent directory, then yes, Apache will know to follow the symlink.Another possibility is using alias in Apache. For example: