Re: symbolic link to public_html folders

On 21.09.2010 22:18, J Greenbaum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble configuring apache so that the public_html folder can
> be a symbolic link to another directory. On my Ubuntu 10.04
> installation, my userdir.conf file includes the 'FollowSymLinks' option
> for the /home/*/public_html directories. However, if I try to access my
> user directory from a browser 'http://localhost/~username', I get a 403
> Forbidden error. In the apache error log, it says:
>
> Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible:
> /home/username/public_html
>
> I have ruled out the possibility that this is a permission problem since
> I can access the directory directly rather than through the symbolic link.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.

Could it be "SymLinksIfOwnerMatch":

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#options

Regards,

Rainer

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Re: symbolic link to public_html folders

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I tried that one too, but no luck. Thanks for the response.

-Jason

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Rainer Jung wrote:

> On 21.09.2010 22:18, J Greenbaum wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having trouble configuring apache so that the public_html folder can
>> be a symbolic link to another directory. On my Ubuntu 10.04
>> installation, my userdir.conf file includes the 'FollowSymLinks' option
>> for the /home/*/public_html directories. However, if I try to access my
>> user directory from a browser 'http://localhost/~username',
>> I get a 403
>> Forbidden error. In the apache error log, it says:
>>
>> Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible:
>> /home/username/public_html
>>
>> I have ruled out the possibility that this is a permission problem since
>> I can access the directory directly rather than through the symbolic link.
>>
>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>
>
> Could it be "SymLinksIfOwnerMatch":
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#options
>
> Regards,
>
> Rainer
>

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I tried that one too, but no luck.  Thanks for the response.

-J=
ason