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KNanCommunity Advisor
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January 30, 2025

Issues in Symlinks

  • January 30, 2025
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Hi All

 

I’ve set up the dispatcher for AEM as a cloud and created symbolic links for the vhost and farm files
in Windows. However, after deploying in the lower environment,the build failed due to the error: "Invalid symlinks found."After checking the Adobe Community forum, I attempted to create the symbolic links through WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux),but I’m encountering issues when trying to commit the code to the Git repository.Could you please suggest how I should proceed with committing the code?
Any insights or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

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arunpatidar
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arunpatidarCommunity Advisor
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January 30, 2025

Hi @knan 

Maybe you need to remove old symlink and commit and then create symlink again and commit.

Arun Patidar
    K
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    KNanCommunity AdvisorAuthor
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    January 30, 2025

    Hi Arun

     

    I tried with many times.Still issues exists

     

    Thanks

    Tethich
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    TethichCommunity Advisor
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    January 30, 2025

    Hi @knan 

     

    Take a look in here: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-learn/ams/dispatcher/git-symlinks

    Maybe you can set symlinks = true in your gitconfig file.

      K
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      KNanCommunity AdvisorAuthor
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      January 30, 2025

      HI Tethich

       

      I tried this options also ..I'm not able to commit.

       

       

      Tethich
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      TethichCommunity Advisor
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      January 30, 2025

      Can you try commit outside Eclipse, in command line or smth ?

        MukeshYadav_
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        MukeshYadav_Community Advisor
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        January 30, 2025

        Hi @knan ,

        Similar issue was resolved after I cloned project in ubuntu and created symlink.

        Thanks

         

          AmitVishwakarma
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          AmitVishwakarmaCommunity Advisor
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          February 2, 2025

          To resolve your symlink issues in Git on Windows:

          1. Ensure Git is set to track symlinks: Run git config --global core.symlinks true.
          2. Create symlinks directly in Windows instead of WSL.
          3. Commit via the command line (outside of Eclipse or any IDE).
          4. Remove old symlinks, commit, and then recreate them.
          5. Check symlink paths in WSL using ls -l.

          If these don’t work, consider using Git LFS for large files or try a different development workflow for symlinks on Windows.

            K
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            KNanCommunity AdvisorAuthor
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            February 3, 2025

            Hi AmitVishwakarma / ALL

            Do we need to commit both files ( Enabled & Available ) for farm & vhost files  ?

            Or Commit only available Vhost and farms files alone ?

            kautuk_sahni
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            kautuk_sahniCommunity Manager
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            February 10, 2025

            @knan Did you find the suggestions helpful? Please let us know if you need more information. If a response worked, kindly mark it as correct for posterity; alternatively, if you found a solution yourself, we’d appreciate it if you could share it with the community. Thank you!

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