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Not able to follow symbolic links via ftp
While connecting via ftp to a shared hosting environment I see all the sym links but trying to follow them gives me the "Fix alias" error. I don't know if they are relative or absolute.
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Inappropriate?Hi Carsten - thanks for the report
a few questions:
1. Can you follow them using other FTP clients correctly?
2. Are the links absolute or relative paths?
3. Try connecting in with '/' set as the remote path -
Inappropriate?Hi Jeff,
Thanks for getting back to me so fast.
Ad 1) Yes. Using Transmit everything works just fine
Ad 2) I'm afraid I don't know :(
Ad 3) Tried it but to no avail -
Inappropriate?Hi, Carsten,
You can find out whether the links are absolute or relative by logging in with the command-line "ftp" program in the Terminal. Just run:
ftp yourname@your.ftphost.com
Then, at the "ftp>" prompt, run the commands
cd /your/remote/path
ls -al
Where "/your/remote/path" is whatever you have entered in the Remote Path field in ExpanDrive. If you don't have anything in that field, you can skip the "cd" line.
The entries that are links will usually have a text arrow ("->") pointing to the target of the link. If the target begins with a forward-slash ("/"), it's absolute; otherwise, it's relative.
For debugging purposes, would you mind copying the output from the "ls -al" command described above into an e-mail to <support@expandrive.com>, so that we can see what you're getting? If you could, it would also be helpful to see what you get if you open the Terminal and run
ls -al /Volumes/yourvolume
... while this drive is mounted. Here, "yourvolume" should be replaced with the drive name you have assigned in ExpanDrive.
We should be able to get this straightened out in short order.
Thanks!
-M
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