Re: "FollowSymLinks" equivalent in httpd?

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2024-03-08, James Cook  wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 04:28:52PM +0300, Mark wrote:
>> Greetings.
>> 
>> Trying to figure out the mailman configuration on OpenBSD.
>> 
>> What is the equivalent of the following server block in httpd?
>> 
>> "
>> Options FollowSymLinks
>> AllowOverride None
>> "
>> 
>> Does the httpd even support following symlinks?

base httpd doesn't support _not_ following symlinks. 

> httpd follows symlinks for me. I just tried making a text file a.txt
> in /var/www/htdocs, and making a symlink with ln -s b.txt a.txt,
> and http://localhost/b.txt gets the content of a.txt.
>
> Keep in mind httpd by default runs chrooted to /var/www, so if you
> want to use absolute paths you will need to leave out /var/www. For
> example if you want c.txt to be a a symlink pointing to
> /var/www/htdocs/a.txt you could run
>
>   ln -s /htdocs/a.txt symlink_file_name.txt

And, importantly (given the config snippet), /var/lib/mailman won't be
accessible.


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Re: "FollowSymLinks" equivalent in httpd?

[James Cook]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 04:28:52PM +0300, Mark wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> Trying to figure out the mailman configuration on OpenBSD.
> 
> What is the equivalent of the following server block in httpd?
> 
> "
> Options FollowSymLinks
> AllowOverride None
> "
> 
> Does the httpd even support following symlinks?
> 
> Regards,
> Mark

httpd follows symlinks for me. I just tried making a text file a.txt
in /var/www/htdocs, and making a symlink with ln -s b.txt a.txt,
and http://localhost/b.txt gets the content of a.txt.

Keep in mind httpd by default runs chrooted to /var/www, so if you
want to use absolute paths you will need to leave out /var/www. For
example if you want c.txt to be a a symlink pointing to
/var/www/htdocs/a.txt you could run

ln -s /htdocs/a.txt symlink_file_name.txt

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James

"FollowSymLinks" equivalent in httpd?

[Mark]

Greetings.

Trying to figure out the mailman configuration on OpenBSD.

What is the equivalent of the following server block in httpd?

"
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
"

Does the httpd even support following symlinks?

Regards,
Mark