Hello everyone,
I've managed to secure a large amount of file storage for our WordPress MU site, in the form of an NFS-mounted drive that is visible as a volume on our application host.
Now, I need to tell WordPress MU to put uploaded files there. I was thinking that rather than trying to hack into the core and figure out how to point WPMU at something other than blogs.dir, I would just create a symlink of blogs.dir, and point it at the mounted volume.
Can anybody think of a reason why this wouldn't work? I don't have the permissions to create my target directory on the NFS-mounted drive, nor am I allowed to change httpd.conf by myself - so, I'll need to get our sysadmin to do whatever's required. I think right now I need to make sure that Apache has follow-symlinks turned on, but I don't know anything more about this aspect of Apache config. Any other suggestions?