Admin Site Archive Download page does not display files when archive folder is a symbolic link

We recently had to move our site archive folder on the server to a new location and attempted to try to symlink the old folder to the new location so we wouldn’t have to update sakai.properties and restart the app. However, the Admin → Site Archive → Download Archives page did not display the symlinked archive files.

Short term solution is to change the location in sakai.properties.

But making the java code able to handle symbolic links would be good too.

Also note that creating the archive file worked fine with the symbolic link.