Nginx sites-enabled sites-available Cannot create soft-link between config files in Ubuntu 12 04

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I am trying to create soft links between config files containing server blocks in the sites-enabled and sites-available directories in  etc nginx    The command I am using is   sudo ln -s sites-available foo conf sites-enabled    When I then execute   ls -l   The result is   lrwxrwxrwx 1 parallels parallels 27 Aug  6 20 44 immigrationinformation conf - gt  immigrationinformation conf   where the immigrationinformation conf - gt  immigrationinformation conf part has a charcoal with red typeface   When I then try and access this soft-link  I am told that it is broken   When I create the soft-link in the sites-available directory i e   sudo ln -s sites-available foo conf sites-available foo link conf   it works as normal  However  if I then move this to the sites-enabled directory  the link is broken again   I can create the soft link via the file manager GUI but not via the command line  I can also create hard-links with no problem   I suspected it was a permissions issue so I have played around with setting all permissions to 777 of both directories and the directories themselves and also changing the owners to something other than root  but still with no luck   Any help would me much appreciated  thank you

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My site configuration file is example conf in sites-available folder So you can create a symbolic link as ln -s  etc nginx sites-available example conf  etc nginx sites-enabled

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You need to start by understanding that the target of a symlink is a pathname  And it can be absolute or relative to the directory which contains the symlink  Assuming you have foo conf in sites-available  Try  cd sites-enabled sudo ln -s    sites-available foo conf   ls -l   Now you will have a symlink in sites-enabled called foo conf which has a target    sites-available foo conf  Just to be clear  the normal configuration for Apache is that the config files for potential sites live in sites-available and the symlinks for the enabled sites live in sites-enabled  pointing at targets in sites-available  That doesn t quite seem to be the case the way you describe your setup  but that is not your primary problem   If you want a symlink to ALWAYS point at the same file  regardless of the where the symlink is located  then the target should be the full path   ln -s  etc apache2 sites-available foo conf mysimlink-whatever conf   Here is  line 1 of  the output of my ls -l  etc apache2 sites-enabled   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  26 Jun 24 21 06 000-default - gt     sites-available default   See how the target of the symlink is relative to the directory that contains the symlink  it starts with      meaning go up one directory    Hardlinks are totally different because the target of a hardlink is not a directory entry but a filing system Inode

[ubuntu] Nginx sites-enabled, sites-available: Cannot create soft-link between config files in Ubuntu 12.04

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