Package: apache2.2-common Version: 2.2.11-3 Severity: normal In my userdir, I did (some time ago, inter alia): <kbd>
ln -s ../work .w ln -s .w/mine/toys code </kbd> and I used to be able to visit /~eddy/code/ to see the code fragments therein. I have today run into this not working: I got 403 instead. However, <kbd> mv code edoc ln -s ../work/mine/toys code </kbd> made the content visible again, although /~eddy/edoc/ stil 403s, so the problem seems to be only that Apache has lost the ability to keep following symlinks until it gets to a real path. For reference, <quote src="sh"> $ ls -lAd code edoc .w lrwxrwxrwx 1 eddy eddy 17 2009-05-25 15:16 code -> ../work/mine/toys lrwxrwxrwx 1 eddy eddy 12 2009-05-25 15:29 edoc -> .w/mine/toys lrwxrwxrwx 1 eddy eddy 7 2006-08-31 19:59 .w -> ../work $ for l in code edoc .w; do readlink -f $l; done /disk/home/eddy/work/mine/toys /disk/home/eddy/work/mine/toys /disk/home/eddy/work </quote> Naturally, your Options shall have to allow FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch to reproduce the half of this where it works. Given that I've used significantly more complex games with symlinks via symlinks, this breaks an internal web-site on which various of my colleagues have come to rely ... I'm going to have to make all my symlinks direct-to-destination, which'll force me to re-do many of them every time I move certain fragments around :-( Such moves used to only require changing one symlink (through which all the others pointed); e.g., if I move ~/work/ to another disk, all symlinks from my userdir to under it shall break, even though I'd naturally replace it with a symlink to where it's gone, which seems to be good enough for all other applications I've tested with. -- Package-specific info: List of enabled modules from 'apache2 -M': actions alias auth_basic authn_file authnz_ldap authz_default authz_host authz_user autoindex cgi dir env ldap mime negotiation perl setenvif ssl status userdir -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apache2 depends on: ii apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.11-3 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n apache2 recommends no packages. apache2 suggests no packages. Versions of packages apache2.2-common depends on: ii apache2-utils 2.2.11-3 utility programs for webservers ii libapr1 1.3.3-3 The Apache Portable Runtime Librar ii libaprutil1 1.3.4+dfsg-1 The Apache Portable Runtime Utilit ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.11-1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libmagic1 5.03-1 File type determination library us ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-16 SSL shared libraries ii libuuid1 1.41.3-1 universally unique id library ii lsb-base 3.2-22 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii mime-support 3.44-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii net-tools 1.60-23 The NET-3 networking toolkit ii perl 5.10.0-22 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii procps 1:3.2.7-11 /proc file system utilities ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org