# Symbolic links

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/symbolic-links/91967>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [April 13, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/symbolic-links/91967 "2007-04-13T21:30:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![cwd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cwd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cwd)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/symbolic-links/91967/1 "2007-04-13T21:30:15Z")

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Greetings  
Looking for suggestions on how to fix this problem. I’m using  
symbolically  
link directory to my radiant/public directory. After modifying my  
.htaccess  
accordingly the site loads fine. But when selecting the a link the alias  
is  
dropped. Example:

Homepage: [http://path/to/user/alias](http://path/to/user/alias)  
Link: [http://path/to/user/link](http://path/to/user/link)

Thoughts?  
Below is snapshot of my .htaccess.

# General Apache options

#AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi (\<-- not supported on web server, yet)  
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi  
#Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI  
RewriteEngine On  
RewriteBase /path/to/symlink  
RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]  
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]  
RewriteCond %{REQUEST\_FILENAME} !-f  
RewriteRule ^(.\*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L]  
ErrorDocument 500 “

## Application error
Rails application failed to  
start properly”

Cheers!