Check out Options FollowSymLinks or Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch.
Apache by default will not follow symbolic links for security purposes.
Apache: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly Books, who else!) page 64. Don't leave home
without it.
Ray
At 12:03 PM -0400 6/30/00, csmith wrote:
>I hate to revisit this problem, but I just can't seem to solve it.
>
>I have installed Apache version 1.3.11 as recomended as a fix, but .to
>no avail
>
>I have a directory /home/httpd/html If i put my site files in the html
>directory it gets servered no problem. If i create a sym link ( ln -s
>/home/tara/html) to my web designers /home/tara/html directory
>all i get is:
> Forbidden
>
>You don't have permission to access / on this server.
>
>Apache/1.3.11 Server at skywizard.com Port 80
>
>I have tried every combination of permissions I can think of on the sym
>link.......but to no avail.
>Yes read permission is set by owners groups and users on all the
>designers directories and files.
>
>I need to be able to do this so that the designer can post her latest
>site files and have them served, with out my haveing to copy everything
>form her directory to /home/httpd/html. I have even tried changfing the
>document root in the httpd.conf file and that gives me the same message
>
>Forbidden
>
>You don't have permission to access / on this server.
>
>
>Apache/1.3.11 Server at skywizard.com Port 80
>
>
>I am at a loss ( I hate to go to NT but I know I can set up ftp access
>for the designer if I post the site with IIS)
>
>
>
>any insight is much appriciated
>
>chris
>
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