Media folder trouble when Pawtucket is in a subdomain

hdace

I want to keep my providence CA directory in my Turbify public_html root, but move the Pawtucket directory to the root of a subdomain: rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com

It works fine except Pawtucket can't find the media and it shows broken links. I have tried scores of ideas to fix this with no joy. I don't want to copy the media to subdomain because I will be adding large amounts of media regularly and I don't want to have to keep doing it twice.

The obvious thing was to edit global.conf with stuff that looks like this: ca_media_url_root = /ca/media/<app_name> & ca_media_root_dir = /home/r95bfzsa66n7voni/public_html/ca/media/<app_name> and many, many permutations, which causes the warning message: It looks like the media directory is not writable by the webserver. Please change the permissions of /home/r95bfzsa66n7voni/public_html/rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com/media/collectiveaccess (or create it if it doesn't exist already) and enable the user which runs the webserver to write to this directory.

So then I tried adding a folder in the subdomain root called media and another inside that called collectiveaccess, and that's when Pawtucket loads correctly except for the broken image links. Turbify doesn't allow symlinks, so I tried making lots of different versions of a .htaccess file to try to redirect Pawtucket from its own directory to the CA directory in the primary domain. Never worked. Also tried various redirects in the Turbify cPanel interface.

Spent much of the weekend trying to get it to work. Any advice appreciated, thanks

monica

hdace Editing your pawtucket global.conf should do it. What you have tried is correct if you have Providence installed in a /ca directory inside your public_html root.

After changing global.conf you will need to restart the webserver or clear caches for it to read the new value and start working.

Make sure you copy the global.conf to a local directory inside the app/conf or into your theme conf directory, otherwise that setting will go away if you ever upgrade.

hdace

monica Thanks. I tried that but it still doesn't work. If you copy the url at the top of my post and load it in your browser, you'll see all the broken links.

monica

hdace That's because it's trying to load the images from: https://rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com/ca/media/collectiveaccess/images/1/2/4/31033_ca_object_representations_media_12439_large.jpg instead of from https://epistrophypictures.com/ca/media/collectiveaccess/images/1/2/4/31033_ca_object_representations_media_12439_large.jpg

Update the ca_media_url_root to be ca_media_url_root = ../ca/media/<app_name> If that doesn't work try the full url ca_media_url_root = https://epistrophypictures.com/ca/media/collectiveaccess

However, I do believe there should be a way to add a symlink through cpanel. Either through SSH, or if you can't do that you could add some code to your pawtucket setup.php to enable it (this is a bit of a hacky way to make it work).

$target = "/home/r95bfzsa66n7voni/public_html/ca/media";
$link = "/home/r95bfzsa66n7voni/public_html/rchsdigitalcollections.epistrophypictures.com/";
symlink($target, $link);

You need to make sure the pawtucket media directory has been removed before this will work and once the symlink is in place, you should delete or comment out that code.

hdace

monica Turbify does not support command-line/terminal, ssh, or cron jobs, and it uses shared IP addresses (which causes a problem not relevant here). Maybe if I pay for a more expensive plan...

Anyway, after trying several times I finally figured out how to follow your instructions properly and it's working now! Hooray! I had to use the setup.php code solution. Thanks!

The last problem I'm having: when one is on a record page and the Source link is available, clicking it gives intermittent results. Sometimes the page loads all the records from a source and sometimes it doesn't. Is there a configuration page somewhere that will force CA to update all of the source page data? I'm using a custom php page which is here: root/themes/RCHS/views/details/ca_objects_lots_default_html.php I can give you more information about it if it helps. Or maybe the problem is memory?

brucek

This is what I created to make a symlink when I was running on a shared serverr with no terminal access:

?php
/--------------------------------------------------------

makesymlink_PHS_CA_Media.php *
Bruce Klotz - Pelham Historical Society /
$makesymlink_PHS_CA_MediaV = "1.1.13 New"; /
*
Create a symlink to an external directory for *
media storage. *
**********************************************************/
// Set destination Directory:
$todir="/home/pelham10/PHS_CA_Media";
if (isset($REQUEST['todir'])){$todir =$REQUEST['todir'];}

// Assume default source directory:
$fromdir = getcwd()."/media";
if (isset($REQUEST['fromdir'])){$fromdir =$REQUEST['fromdir'];}

if(isset($REQUEST['make'])){$make=$REQUEST['make'];}else{$make=null;}
/********************************************************/
function echocheck($fromdir){
// Check if the Source Directory or Symlink ($fromdir)exists and Return True if they dont, and display an Error and return False if they do.
if (is_link($fromdir)){
echo "<div style='font-weight:bold;color:red'><h1!!WARNING!!/h1/>Source: $fromdir is already a link!!! <br/>
Type: <i> makesymlink_PHP_CA_Media.php?remove=1</i> to remove
<h1!!WARNING!!/h1/></div>";
return false;
}
elseif (is_dir($fromdir)){
echo "<div style='font-weight:bold;color:red'>Source: $fromdir Directory FOUND and must be removed to proceed!<br/><br/>
WARNING!!!! THIS WILL DELETE ALL FILES IN THE MEDIA DIRECTORY - THIS CAN NOT BE UNDONE!!<br/>MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE REMOVING ";
echo "      There are <b>".countFiles($fromdir)."</b> Files in the Directory!</div>";
return false;
}
return true;
}
/*************************************************/
function rrmdir($dir) {
// Recursively Delete ($dir) Directory or Symlink
if (is_dir($dir)) {
$objects = scandir($dir);
foreach ($objects as $object) {
if ($object != "." && $object != "..") {
if (filetype($dir."/".$object) == "dir"){
rrmdir($dir."/".$object);
}else{
unlink ($dir."/".$object);
}
}
}
reset($objects);
rmdir($dir);
}
return true;
}
/*************************************************/
function countFiles($dir){
// Return number of files in Directory ($dir)
return exec("find ".$dir." -type f -print | wc -l");
}
/****************************************************/
/ Begin Here */
echo "<html><head><title>Make Symlinks for CA</title></head>
<body>";
echo " [makesymlink_PHS_CA_Media V$makesymlink_PHS_CA_MediaV]<br/>";

	
  if (!is_dir($todir)){
	    echo "Destination: $todir Directory NOT FOUND!<br/>";
	    $make=false;
  }



	if(isset($_REQUEST['remove'])) {
      if(is_link($fromdir)){
             echo "REMOVING LINK: $fromdir...";
	           if ( unlink($fromdir)){echo"...REMOVED!<br/>";}else{echo" FAILED!<br/>";}
      }
      if(is_dir($fromdir)){
             echo "REMOVING DIR: $fromdir...";
	           if (rrmdir($fromdir)){echo"...REMOVED!<br/>";}else{echo" FAILED!<br/>";}
      }
}		



if ($make and echocheck($fromdir)){
	    echo	"Making link ...<br/>from: <b>$fromdir</b><br/> to: <b>$todir</b> ";
	    if( symlink($todir,$fromdir)){echo"...OK";}else{echo"...FAILED!";} 	
  }else{
	    echo  "<br/>
	           To create a SYMLINK <br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;From: <b>$fromdir</b><br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To: <b>$todir</b><br/>
             Type: <i> makesymlink_PHP_CA_Media.php?make=1 <br/></i><br/><br/>";
  }



  if (!$make){echocheck($fromdir);}
  $removewhat = "[ nothing ]<br/>";
  if (is_dir($fromdir)){$removewhat="DIR <br/> <b><i>$fromdir</i></b>";}
  if(is_link($fromdir)){$removewhat="LINK <br/> <b><i>$fromdir</i></b>";}

  echo "   <form action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."'>
             <button type='submit' name='make' value='Make'>Make Link from<br/><b><i>$fromdir</i></b><br/>to<br><b><i>$todir</i></b></button>
             &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
             <button type='submit' name='remove' value='remove'><br/>Remove $removewhat<br/><br/></button>
           </form>";
echo "</body></html>";

brucek

OK, that displayed very strange.