httpd symlinks problem
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Nov 29 10:52:50 UTC 2004
Paul Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the start of last week, the old webserver went belly up. I've now
> installed a new server, copied over the httpd.conf file and changed the
> bits I need to change, but there is now a problem
>
> It won't follow symlinks!
>
> On the old system (self compiled version of httpd, 2.0.48), I would have
> a symlink in /var/www/html/reelnorth pointing to /web/reelnorth and
> httpd would follow the symlink and all was happy.
>
> Now it won't allow me to use symlinks at all.
>
> I have in the config file the following
(snip)
> #
> # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
> #
> <Directory "/var/www/html">
>
> #
> # Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
> # or any combination of:
> # Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI
> MultiViews
> #
> # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
> # doesn't give it to you.
> #
> # The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
> # http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options
> # for more information.
> #
> Options FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI Multiviews
> XBitHack On
> #
> # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess
> files.
> # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
> # Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
> #
> AllowOverride None
>
> #
> # Controls who can get stuff from this server.
> #
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
>
> </Directory>
Try adding:
<Directory "/web">
Options FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI Multiviews
XBitHack On
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
and see if that helps.
Paul.
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