Backend and Infrastructure

Creating Symbolic Links on Command Line

Sprout Video

This video shows how to use the magical symbolic link, or symlink. These are basically a handy *nix way to create shortcuts. They come in particularly handy if you want to organize code for your websites outside of the web server's document root and that is the example we use here.

Note: this video was originally released November 23, 2009 on Lullabot.com.