Document where to put temp, private files

[mortona42]

Should temp be /tmp?

Should private files be ../private?

[johnbburg]

Temp should be /tmp. That's also hardcoded in the settings.vm.php example. Although that only applies to the VM. This was done because the temp directory can be in different locations depending on the hosting provider. Which may be a non-existent path within the VM.

I think you want to avoid relative paths in the private files directory and in general. ../private can be interpreted to be within the current build's repository root, i.e the contents of /var/www/vhosts/site.www/current/private, which will change on every build, rather than the /var/www/vhosts/site.www/shared/private path.

[wwhurley]

If you have any directories, including private uploads, that should be shared across releases of the software they should be added to https://github.com/forumone/web-starter/blob/1.1.x/config/deploy.rb#L29 so they can be symlinked into place. We should not be using absolute paths to reference directories.

[mortona42]

Thanks for that info John, how should tmp be configured for f1 hosting?

William, where would you recommend putting that private file directory? If we specify /var/www/vhosts/site.www/shared/private, how should that be stated in deploy.rb?

I'm hearing conflicting things on absolute vs relative paths.

[wwhurley]

On the line listed in the deploy.rb file you would add a space and then private. So it would look like:

set :linked_dirs, %w{public/sites/default/files private}

That is a white-space delimited array of paths to create in ./shared directory relative to the deployment base path and then symlink into the appropriate directory in the release.

I would recommend having it as ../private

[mortona42]

I added private as specified (looks like it uses [] instead of {} for the array), now I can see that in the /shared directory.

I'm not getting how the symlink is specified though.

[wwhurley]

The symlink happens automatically. By for each path in that array it creates a directory in the shared directory and then symlink it to the same place in each release.

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I added private as specified (looks like it uses [] instead of {} for the array), now I can see that in the /shared directory.

I'm not getting how the symlink is specified though.

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[mortona42]

So the symlink for /shared/private goes into /current/private (or /releases/XXXX/private), which is why specifying ../private for the directory works. Thanks!

[mortona42]

Updated wiki: https://github.com/forumone/web-starter/wiki/Quick-and-dirty:-how-to-use-our-web-starter-environment

We probably need an official place for f1 hosting documentation.