----------------------------------- Blade Tue May 27, 2003 8:00 pm Link folders ----------------------------------- on unix machines you can link your folders together. so that it appears as if the folders are being displayed in more than one folder. ie: C:\pics --> it has a file called ladies.jpg you refrence the files from pics into another folder C:\pics2 --> it now has ladies.jpg in it the upside to this is that you have the file in multiple folders but it doesn't actually exist there, in turn it doesnt take up space anyone know how i could accomplish this in windows xp(pro)? ----------------------------------- void Tue May 27, 2003 8:15 pm ----------------------------------- shortcuts? ----------------------------------- JSBN Tue May 27, 2003 8:15 pm ----------------------------------- you mean like combining to folders, but the files are still kept in their own seperate folders? I am definately not an expert with Windows XP, there is nothing i've ever heard of that'll do this. ----------------------------------- Tony Tue May 27, 2003 8:29 pm ----------------------------------- well I know you can make a shortcut to a folder... ----------------------------------- Homer_simpson Tue May 27, 2003 9:16 pm ----------------------------------- well if that's what u want i know how to do it... in fact i already have a shortcut to my programming folder in my documents folder(not sure if this is what u want... =/) here's how i did it... select the folder u want then copy it to clipboard by ctrl+c then goto the folder that u want to create shortcut in and right click and drag to paste shortcut... ----------------------------------- Blade Tue May 27, 2003 10:06 pm ----------------------------------- you see this is what i want. my d drive is where i keep all my media. but i also want it up on my server. and those are stored on my other drive. so i want everything on my d drive refrenced into that folder on c: ----------------------------------- Asok Tue May 27, 2003 10:25 pm ----------------------------------- Blade, you'll need to set up a RAID configuration. ----------------------------------- Homer_simpson Wed May 28, 2003 7:39 am ----------------------------------- i think u can edit your apache conf file and set d:\ as yer htdocs =/ ----------------------------------- Blade Wed May 28, 2003 11:31 am ----------------------------------- i know i can set whatever i want to be my htdocs folder.... but it doesnt solve the problem. asok, how can i do that? ----------------------------------- Asok Wed May 28, 2003 11:57 am ----------------------------------- I'll ask my brother when I get home. He set up my RAID config. ----------------------------------- rizzix Wed May 28, 2003 4:39 pm ----------------------------------- i know i can set whatever i want to be my htdocs folder.... but it doesnt solve the problem. asok, how can i do that? why don't u edit the apache config file like this Alias /myfiles/ "D:/mydir/anotherdir/myfilesdir/" so to go to "D:/mydir/anotherdir/myfilesdir/index.htm" you type in "http://www.url-of-my-website.com/myfiles/index.htm" ----------------------------------- Blade Wed May 28, 2003 7:13 pm ----------------------------------- thx. i tried it but since i'm using a virtual document root it isnt working properly..