Using Symlinks with local

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Okay so with the preface that I much prefer the user experience of Local to MAMP Pro…

But…

I have unlimited amazon cloud drive, and I keep everything backed up from my local machine there using a sync system called odrive.

With MAMP Pro, I could cut and paste the wordpress install folders from htdocs to the sync folder, then create a symlink to them in the htdocs.

This worked great, MAMP didn’t care that it was accessing the installs through the symlink.

I tried this with Local. At first it was okay, but when I close and reopen Local I get an error to do with TLS certificates and then it hangs trying to repeatedly reload system image or something.

Problem is, that even when I try to copy the original folder back into place in the local sites folder, the error persists.

Is there anyway to change the destination for the local sites folder? I would love for that folder to be in my Sync folder then I could symlink that into my home folder.

Cheers

Jeff

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Hey Jeff,

Symlinks that link outside of the shared Virtualbox folder are not supported by Virtualbox.

Fortunately, there’s an addon that should do exactly what you’re wanting :slight_smile:

Check out https://github.com/getflywheel/local-addon-volumes

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Hey Clay,

That’s great news, I’ll check it out now.

Nice one

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Just wanted to say, the Add-on seems superb, exactly what I needed.

Just remapped a volume into my sync folder, then symlinked into my home folder. Brilliant.

I had to regenerate Docker Machine TLS certificates after I installed the add-on, and also upon restarting for the first 2 restarts after remapping volumes. Now it starts local machine immediately upon starting up.

I only tried with a test volume. I have duplicates of all my sites, so I’m going to try remapping real dev sites one by one and checking the TLS thing. I’ll feedback more after.

Great work Clay!

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Remapped volumes for 8 sites. No longer getting the TLS issue at startup, all good.

Cheers

edit - after deleting original folders, I got this issue again, after restarting a few times it went away. Things are working okay, but there is a warning that ‘WordPress does not exist in this directory’ - ie the app is reading the local sitepath and not the mapped sitepath.

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Thanks. This worked perfectly (no TLS issues) as a workaround for a symlink to an under-development theme in my repos directory.

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Is it possible to map your uploads folder to an external hard drive?

I had symlinks setup that did this before using Local and now the mapping is just giving me a 404 error (was 403 Forbidden before mapping and using addon so that’s a plus).

It’s as if the new map isn’t actually working…

Any ideas? Really need to save space on my actual computer.

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It should be!

Do you have Faster Docker Volumes enabled under Preferences » Advanced?

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Yes, it is enabled.

Running the current setup in volumes for the site:

Host Source: /Users/jrglass/Sites/snowboardmag/app/public/wp-content/uploads
Container Destination: /Volumes/External/sites/snowboard/uploads

Does that setup work or am I missing something?

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Hi @jglass,

Have you found a solution?
I have the same problem when I want to install on my external hard drive.

Thanks !

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No solution yet.

@clay, do we need to also setup an actual symlink after we setup Local correctly, or is no actual symlink needed as Local handles that?

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@autour @jglass,

Is Faster Docker Volumes disabled?

If not, you both may want to try disabling Faster Docker Volumes. Then, go to Help » Restart Local Machine.

No symlink is needed :slight_smile:

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Yup, that did the trick. Thanks for the help @clay!

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