Link file not opening on webserver

[Tim]

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 13:37 +0100, Paul Ward wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to link a file from from my home directory
> to /var/www/html so it can be a acccessed remotley.
> 
> I used the following to link the file which worked fine.
> 
>  # ln -s myfile /var/www/html/

That's linking a file to a directory?

>  # ls -l /var/www/html
>  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 May 13.19 myfile.html
> -> /home/user/myfile.html
> 
> When going to my webserver http://myfile.html does not open up I get a
> permisson problem how do I get round this? 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Forbidden
> 
> You don't have permission to access myfile.html on this server

That doesn't quite match what you wrote in the link command, above
(myfile versus myfile.html).

As pointed out, Apache needs configuring to follow symlinks (for
security purposes).  SELinux can also play a role in what's allowed to
be served.

An alternative is to have a directory within the /var/www/html/ tree
that *you* are allowed to write to, and put a symlink to it in your
homespace.  Now you can write to files, there, while working from your
homespace directory.


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