Sharing Images Between Two Sites On Same Server

[Javawookie]

Hi stuck on a problem, wondered if anyone had any ideas.
I have a dedicated server with two sites ie site1 & site2.

We have two sites which need to share the same images folder, the situation is
a shopping site (site1) with one category of products which we have decided to setup as dedicated site for (site2).

Our system uploads the images to site1 directory ie:
/home/site1/public_html/images/image1.jpg

I don't want to duplicate the images into site2 images directory so is there a way
of sharing them using the following url
/home/site2/public_html/images/image1.jpg (which pulls site1 image)

Hope this makes sense!

Cheers

Steve

[Irithori]

If the pictures are and stay on the same server
and the permissions are set accordingly,
then a bind mount should solve your problem.

Basically you bind mount the source directory
/home/site1/public_html/images
to
/home/site2/public_html/images

For details, see
man mount

[Irithori]

Or, - if site2 is readonly for these images- then there is a simpler way:

Just delete the (empty|redundant) images directory for site2
and add an alias /images to the apache virtual host of site2, that points to /home/site1/public_html/images

[Schmidt]

Symbolic links can do the same too...)