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i created a symlink: helloises@helloise:/var/www$ sudo ln -s /home/elemental/webroot /var/www/www-rainbowcode-mobi

when I ls -lah this symlink: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2011-04-13 15:23 www-rainbowcode-mobi -> /home/elemental/webroot

is in RED. What does that mean?? And when I stop and start apache2 I get a warning:

Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/www-rainbowcode-mobi] does not exist

can anybody help please?? thank you

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Could you explain what you would like to have as a result? –  maectpo Apr 13 '11 at 13:52

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the color red means that the file you are pointing to does not exist (the apache message tells you so too). Triple check your destination with ls /home/elemental/webroot


Shouldn't it be something like /home/helloises/traffic2/elemental/webroot?

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yikes, just saw that, thanks very much! –  charlie_cat Apr 14 '11 at 6:46
@Helloise Smit : I'm going to know your computer's filesystem layout by heart ^^ –  greg0ire Apr 14 '11 at 8:00

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