Symlinks on windows

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I can’t get symlinks to work on windows. I’ve tried the volumes addon but it doesn’t seem to work, can’t remap any volumes.

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Hi Robin,

Sorry for the trouble!

Symlinks don’t work with VirtualBox/Docker.

As far as the Volumes add-on goes, are you running into any errors or is it simply not working?

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For now I have made some simple changes in the volumes addon to get it working.
I’m keeping themes and plugins as separate git repositories.

So here is what I did:

  • Everywhere it checked for “/Users” and “/Volumes”, I added a check for “/c/Users”
  • Made an empty folder with the same name as the theme “sites/site-name/app/public/wp-content/themes/theme-name”
  • Mapped the actual themefolder to that folder e.g. “projects/project-name/themes/theme-name”

Downsides:

  • only works with the C drive.
  • sites seem slower

I’m sure someone can come up with something better so I won’t be doing a pull request.

Github link

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