I use pydio on a few of my servers for sharing files.  Recently, on one of them, I decided it would be good to move the document root for the site.  Everything seemed really great, until I started getting reports of files that were shared earlier were no longer working.

Seems that when you share a file, pydio creates a tiny php file that gets stored in /your_doc_root/data/public

Inside that php file, onf of the things that you find is a line that says,

require_once(“/your_doc_root/data/publicLet.inc.php”);

So, when I changed my doc root from /usr/local/www/apache24/data/admins/ to /usr/local/www/apache24/data/, things stopped working.

If you only had one or two files shared, you could just go in and edit each of them.  I had hundreds to deal with.  Luckily for me, my google-foo was excellent today and I came across an excellent post about using sed to replace text within files.

Long story short, for me to get rid of the offending “admins” in all of the shared files, I just needed one tiny sed command.

sed -i '' -- 's/admins\///g' *.php

You would want to cd to the data/public folder, then issue that command.  Doing so will look in all files in that directory ending in .php and replace anything that is “admins/” with nothing.

Happy day!  Thank you internet!