Creating a Symbolic Link in cPanel

cPanel doesn’t have features that work with symbolic links, so if ever a need to create a symlink arises, you’ll need to turn to alternatives to do so.

One way is to SSH into your server and execute this command:

ln -s /path/to/target /path/to/shortcut

Doing so will create a symlink for you.

In case SSH is unavailable, you can’t turn to FTP as it doesn’t support creation of symbolic links either.

There are 3 other options to try:

• Set up a cron job in cPanel using the above-mentioned command.

[su_note note_color=”#ffa6bd”]Don’t forget to delete the cronjob after the symlink is created. Failing to do this will result in unpredictable issues.[/su_note]

• Create a PHP script to run in your browser. This is what it will look like:

<?php
$target = 'uploads.php';
$shortcut = 'uploads';

symlink($target, $shortcut);

echo readlink($shortcut);
?>

• Submit a support ticket and Jolt engineers will help you. This method works 100%. 🙂