Junction points(simlinks) under Windows XP are not recognized by PHP

Question

I've found two tools which create "simlinks" within Windows XP (I know they're not real links, but so it goes). The problem is that neither of them create something which I can use with WAMP.

Because I'll often want to link into a repository, I'll often want to keep the www folder contain mostly simlinks. I'd like to do the same under Windows but while Apache recognizes what this tool creates, I get the message: Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required 'C:/wamp/www/cwa/something.php' (include_path='.;C:\wamp\bin\php\PHP53~1.0\pear;C:\wamp\Zend\library') in Unknown on line 0 from PHP and C:/wamp/www/cwa/ is also not recognized as a directory by PHP either. (C:\wamp\www\cwa is supposed to be the link, BTW)

How do I fix this? This tool doesn't seem to create something which is recognized by Apache. Is there another tool which is recognized by both Apache and PHP? Is this some form of ini or conf issue?

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The two tools above are at these two links:
http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm
http://www.taranfx.com/create-symlink-in-windows

Answer 1

I'm just going to mark this one as "answered" because there doesn't seem to be a word-around or, if there is, no one here has shared it.

The only other viable option is to use Apache's aliasing. I had hoped to avoid that because I prefer to modify conf's and htaccess as little as possible, but it looks like there isn't a choice here.

Answer 2

Try making a hard link instead of a junction point. You can use the fsutil command. See here.

Answer 3

If you are willing to use to work with PHP then it recognizes the junction points however there is an odd caching behavior that seems to occur.