Am 29.09.2012 23:59, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > On Sat, Sep 29 2012, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> On my new install USERDIR is not working. >> >> When I try http://localhost/~gottlieb, firefox says >> "you don't have permission to access /~gottlieb" >> and the apache error log says >> "client denied by server configuration: /local/allan/gottlieb/public_html" >> >> The file permissions are ok since both >> file:///home/gottlieb/public_html/index.html and >> file:///home/gottlieb/public_html >> work fine. >> >> So I guess I screwed up the apache install, in particular USERDIR. >> >> eix shows userdir (see below) >> >> /etc/conf.d/apache2 has it (see below, diffs = with my working install) >> >> I have restarted apache, shutdown the machine overnight, reinstalled >> apache, but still no go. >> >> What step did I foolishly miss? >> >> thanks, >> allan > > Finally! I have a filesystem mounted on /local for my local files > including my home directory /local/allan/gottlieb. > I put in a symlink /home -> /local/allan/gottlieb > so that programs looking in /home would be happy. > I had /etc/passwd say /local/allan/gottlieb since it is the real > directory. > > apache doesn't like this. There is probably an option to let it do this > since it has several options on symlinks > > However I simply changed /etc/passwd to say /home/gottlieb and apache > is happy. > > allan >
There's an option called FollowSymlinks which you can set per directory to allow apache to... yeah, follow symlinks :) Look for FollowSymlinks on http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html
