I'm working on a project with a directory structure that relies on symlinks. I would like to package this project in such a way that users with no command line access or knowledge could still upload the project to their servers. At the moment, this is not possible, whenever I attempt to upload the symlinks, they are converted into the contents they link to.
Is it actually possible to upload symlinks to a server? If yes, what would be the procedure? If not can you recommend another approach?
This project wouldn't work without symlinks as I need the same information in various places and copying the content is not an option.
Thanks!!!
Best Answer
Besides the suggestions from Dennis you could look at tar or cpio and then use a self-extracting shell script to make it easier on the end user to install.
Look up here-to (>>) documents under any bash scripting tutorial or try MakeSelf.