[TYPO3-english] Unusual installing of TYPO3

[maaboo]

I use now the following:

Ubuntu-8.10-server under VMWare player.
/var/www/localhost as symlink to /mnt/hgfs/www (shared folder w:\www\html)
with full installation (the laziest way) - works well.
But it seems that mysql doesn't see my symlink /var/lib/mysql/myste (shared
folder w:\www\mysql) so i use DB inside VM.

2009/1/5 Xavier Perseguers <typo3 at perseguers.ch>

> Hi,
>
> > But i'm afraid that linux installation of T3 uses symlinks whereas
> windows
> > installation does not and it can cause problems. Or does not?
>
> That's true. But even under Linux you cannot symlink to another physical
> partition. The question is why you need this?
>
> Do you need the whole "local" installation of TYPO3 (thus not talking
> from the typo3_src directory) to be in Windows or do you need user files
> to be stored on Windows?
>
> Because you may have a typical TYPO3 installation on Linux, with
> symlinks and all the stuff but mount fileadmin, uploads and perhaps
> typo3conf or only typo3conf/ext as Windows shares.
>
> On Windows you would have
>
> W:\www\localhost\fileadmin
> W:\www\localhost\uploads
> W:\www\localhost\typo3conf
>
> you would then make 3 shares, let's say localhost_fileadmin,
> localhost_uploads and localhost_typo3conf and mount them with something
> like
>
> # mount -t smb smb://.../localhost_fileadmin
> /var/www/html/localhost/fileadmin
>
> done with /etc/fstab of course. I think it would work and you would not
> have the problem of the symlinks.
>
> Xavier
>
> >
> > 2009/1/5 Xavier Perseguers <typo3 at perseguers.ch>
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> maaboo wrote:
> >>> Hi, and Happy New TYPO3 Year! :-)
> >>>
> >>> I need to install TYPO3 on my local machine. The difficulties is that i
> >> need
> >>> TYPO3 source installation as usual linux and site installation as
> >> external
> >>> mount and all this under VMWare enviroment. E.g.:
> >>>
> >>> [Inside VMWare]
> >>> # Using CentOS 4.7 as guest OS
> >>>
> >>> /var/www/html <---- typo3_src-4.2.3
> >>> /var/www/html/localhost <---- see below
> >> Use /etc/fstab to mount your Windows directory using CIFS (successor of
> >> samba)
> >>
> >>> [Outside VMWare]
> >>> #Using Windows as Host OS
> >>>
> >>> W:\www\localhost <---- /localhost/
> >>>
> >>> So, i can store my sites somewhere at windows drive and other files
> >> inside
> >>> VMWare. Sure, it should work together! :-)
> >> The other way around would be to install samba on your CentOS, to share
> >> your typo3_src and use a shared drive on Windows (that you may "mount"
> >> using a drive letter).
> >>
> >> HTH
> >>
> >> --
> >> Xavier Perseguers
>


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with respect, Grigory
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