[ale] Apache and symbolic links

Matty matty91 at bellsouth.net
Fri Dec 19 18:15:14 EST 2003


On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 17:18, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have apache 1.3 running.  I want to replace the document root files with symbolic links pointing to files somewhere else on the server.  It is easy enough to populate the directory with sym links (ln -s...).  Unfortunately, apache does not pick up on the link to deliver the file when the hypertext is selected.  I tested the failure by placeing a real file in the document root.  The real file works.  Any symbolic link fails.  I know the symbolic links are good as I can can ls -l symlink_file and get the file statistics.
> 
> Is there something in the httpd.conf file I can tweak?
> 

Do you have "Options FollowSymLinks" set?

> Regards,
> 
> 
> John
> 
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