[TYPO3-english] Unusual installing of TYPO3

[Xavier Perseguers]

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
>> http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en/tutorials/typo3.html
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