Ok guys...
After messing with this thing on and off throughout the day (I am supposed to actually ~do~ something while here @work after all.... lol! ) I have managed to get this thing working, BUT - I suspect that my solution is temporary at present due to the way that SME re-builds .conf files if/whenever the box gets restarted.
Long story short, I thought that I had it solved by perusing through this thread:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=17005.msg65931#msg65931I took the /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/90e-smithAccess40ibays file and copied it to the place where custom templates go (can these paths be any deeper??? What a pia to have to keep typing over & over!! ) and added the line per the suggestion by the person called Sascha. I then expanded the template (I think, guess... {shrug shoulders - never done this before... } using this command as referenced from the e-smith/custom web page:
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
I think (I've tried so many things I can't remenber 'em all!) I then simply re-booted the server. Didn't work. ;(
So..... I grabbed any data that I had in the existing ibay and backed it up to someplace else (ghost image files) and blew it away. I re-created it (using a slightly different name) and then tried a variation of Rich Lafferty's suggestion which is the post right before the Sascha persons idea. I edited the httpd.conf file ~directly~ (the one in use at /etc) and changed the relevant line so that it reads like so (screen shot):
#------------------------------------------------------------
# ghostimages ibay directories (pc image files storage)
#------------------------------------------------------------
Options Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks +Includes
AllowOverride None
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
I then dumped the saved image files back into the ibay ../files directory and created a symlink to it. I used an explicit directory path this time in the sym also, ie; /home/e-smith/files/ibays/.. etc... instead of my previous symlink of ../files like I did previously (as the link will be viewed from a web browser out of the ../html directory). Seem like ../files should (and probably will?) work - but I decided to just hit it explicitly....
Anyway - it works!
Problem is... its likely to go away the next time I have to restart this machine, right? ;( ;( ;(
How or what do I do to make it perm? It has to be in the custom fragment file thing (I would assume)... I'm tired and hungry (again!) - back to this later.
Thanks much for any help folks!
-=- jd -=-