Re: [users@httpd] Proper configuration of FollowSymLinks in 2.0.54

[Forrest Aldrich]

I stripped down the httpd.conf to barebones, using these directives: <Directory />     Options All     AllowOverride All     Order Deny,Allow     Deny from all </Directory> There is a symlink in DocumentRoot "mp3share" pointing to this:    <Directory "/usr/local/shares/forrie/mp3">         Options All </Directory> I created a symbolic link owned by root, by www, and by the id "forrie".  None of them work, they all provide this error in the log: Fri Sep 09 12:30:44 2005] [error] [client 192.168.1.99] Symbolic link not allowed: /usr/local/www/data/mp3share As far as I can tell, this is correct.   Again, I had no problem on my 1.3.x server using this: Alias /mp3/ "/usr/local/shares/forrie/mp3" <Directory "/usr/local/shares/forrie/mp3">     Options All </Directory> I note someone else posted a response, indicating a similar problem with symlinks and apache-2.0.54. _F Joshua Slive wrote: On 9/8/05, Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the proper way to configure FollowSymLinks in 2.0.54? I'm having a problem getting this to work at all - after reading the manual, searching for examples, it seems fairly straightforward; however, every combination I try fails with: Symbolic link not allowed. I am suspicious that I've hit a bug, and actually filed a bug report, to which detractors insist there is no bug. They didn't insist there was no bug. They pointed out repeated inconsistencies and errors in your examples that made it impossible to recreate any problem. I tried a stripped-down httpd.conf that has basically this: DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/data: <Directory /> Options All </Directory> The symlink is in the DocumentRoot as: files -> /usr/local/shares/directory I tried specifying the directory in different ways: <Direcotory "/files"> <Direcotry "/usr/local/www/data/files"> <Directory> sections must always use full file-system paths. The first thing to do is to look through httpd.conf (and any Include'd config files) for EVERY SINGLE OCCURENCE of the Options directive, and make sure they all include FollowSymlinks or All. (The other posters comment about needing to specify FollowSymLinks explicitly is not correct; this option is included in All.) Once you have it working like that, you can start removing some of them to see where it breaks. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]