You can certainly symlink to an application. Having two applications access the same database is a different story. In theory it should work fine (but I would never do it).
On Thursday, June 7, 2012 8:00:51 PM UTC-7, Doug Philips wrote: > > I can only find one mention of symbolic links in the book, under: > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/4#Application-init > > That seems to imply that symbolic links at the applications directory > level are ok. > Specifically, if I have the following applications: > ProjectX2010 > ProjectX2011 > ProjectX2012 > and then I symbolic link ProjectX to point to one of them, say > ProjectX2012, is the underlying database safe if I have clients using > the ProjectX2012 and ProjectX applications at the same time? > > The one mention of symbolic links seems to say so, but that's pretty > 'backhanded' way of saying symlinks won't cause any corruption with > simultaneous access, etc. > I'm interested because I have several instances of ProjectX (and > ProjectY) planned, and if symbolic links are safe, for my use case > here, symbolic links seem a lot easier than doing URL > rewriting/routing. If I've missed where this is talked about in the > book, a link or even a better, a better term to search for would be > great! > > Thanks, > --Doug >
