[dokuwiki] Are symbolic links safe to use for pages?

  • From: Jim Seymour <dweswlafroak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:30:32 -0800

Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but I couldn't find anything about it in my searches...
Is it "safe" to use symbolic links in the pages to allow for redirection? (dokuwiki is being hosted on a Linux box) 

Example: in .../dokuwiki/data/pages, I do the following:

   ln -s page1.txt page2.txt
Dokuwiki will then see it as if there were two pages. However if one is edited, the other will change. I suspect this will cause dokuwiki to do some kind of maintenance behind the scenes, but that seems mostly harmless.
The alternative to this would be something like the "goto" plugin, but this seems simpler to me... 

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