The following reply was made to PR general/1402; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: general/1402: Relative Symlinks are handled improperly Date: 14 Nov 1997 08:12:43 -0000 > I just wrote: > > I was really tired...and even more tired of trying to figure out why > FollowSymLinks wasn't working. > > I have some related weirdness which I'll include in another reply. WEIRD ITEM #2: Options parsing seems to not conform to my reading of the manual apache book. The directive "Options FollowSymLinks Indexes" at the top-level of access.conf, which is not overridden by another Options directive in a VirtualHost or Directory context, doesn't make symlinks work. An .htaccess file with "Options FollowSymLinks" does make them work. Options is supposed to be valid in the config context. htcat http://hackvan.com/pub/stig/funny/rants/hermann-hates-neighbors GET http://hackvan.com/pub/stig/funny/rants/hermann-hates-neighbors HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 08:03:44 GMT Server: Apache/1.2.4 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html <HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>403 Forbidden</TITLE> </HEAD><BODY> <H1>Forbidden</H1> You don't have permission to access /pub/stig/funny/rants/hermann-hates-neighbors on this server.<P> </BODY></HTML> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- /var/log/httpd >> ==> /var/log/httpd/access.hackvan <== jato.hackvan.com - - [14/Nov/1997:00:03:44 -0800] "GET http://hackvan.com/pub/stig/funny/rants/hermann-hates-neighbors HTTP/1.0" 403 191 ==> /var/log/httpd/errors.hackvan <== [Fri Nov 14 00:03:44 1997] access to /u/web/hackvan.com/pub/stig/funny/rants/hermann-hates-neighbors failed for jato.hackvan.com, reason: Symbolic link not allowed pwd /var/log/httpd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- /var/log/httpd >> cd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- /u/stig >> cd fun/rants /u/stig/links/fun/rants -- /u/ftp/pub/stig/funny/rants -- a-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- >> ls clumsy-morning-coffee hermann-hates-dogs@ hermann-hates-neighbors@ hermann-loves-a-few-things-too@ hermann-hates-chains@ hermann-hates-getting-old@ hermann-hates-the-drug-war@ hermann-hates-communication@ hermann-hates-mainstream-music@ hermann-hates-the-movies@ -- /u/ftp/pub/stig/funny/rants -- a-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- >> echo Options +FollowSymLinks >.htaccess -- /u/ftp/pub/stig/funny/rants -- a-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- >> hthead http://hackvan.com/pub/stig/funny/rants/hermann-hates-neighbors GET http://hackvan.com/pub/stig/funny/rants/hermann-hates-neighbors HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 08:04:38 GMT Server: Apache/1.2.4 Last-Modified: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:36:39 GMT ETag: "9fae-1e75-32ffb107" Content-Length: 7797 Accept-Ranges: bytes Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain From aol.com!HermHates Wed Aug 21 20:09:23 1996 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["6481" "Wed" "21" "August" "1996" "23:02:23" "-0400" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "127" "Hermann Hates #13" "^From:" nil nil "8" "1996082203:02:23" "Hermann Hates #13" nil nil] ("=stig=")) -- /u/ftp/pub/stig/funny/rants -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- >> ==> /var/log/httpd/access.hackvan <== jato.hackvan.com - - [14/Nov/1997:00:04:38 -0800] "GET http://hackvan.com/pub/stig/funny/rants/hermann-hates-neighbors HTTP/1.0" 200 7797
