Broken links 18 January, 2008 at 12:51 am
So the other day my webserver was moved to a new cluster. Things seemed fine until I had a poke around inside the Gallery and I discovered that thousands of symbolic links to image files are now invalid!
Contacted support, but there’s nothing much they can do. I can’t see how the links are set up, but on the basis that they aren’t working… I’m supposing that they include the path from the root. Since my home directory is now different to what it was on the other cluster, the old path points some place that doesn’t exist.
The process of building the galleries took days (I’d worked on it for hours at a time at various stages while I was away), and it’s not a pleasant thoght to have to mostly start over. The images themselves do exist in my filespace, so I’m going to ee if I can replace the (currenlty broken) links with new links or with actual files, perhaps by removing the directories containing the links and moving/renaming the directories containing the files to Gallery’s data directory. Unfortunately the directory names are not the same (due to Gallery disallowing some of the characters), so it isn’t going to be a straightforward process.
Meanwhile, I’m learning C# .Net at the moment. I think it is going to take a while.
-G.
Leave a Reply