Hello, > 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
It's not about liking... mod_userdir automatically maps a URL in the form ~/foo onto user foo's home dir, as it is recorded in the system's user database. If you put /local/allan/gottlieb there, apache tries to serve files directly from /local/allan/gottlieb. The default mod_userdir configuration (/etc/apache2/modules.d/00_mod_userdir.conf, of which you pasted an excerpt in the other email) only sets an "Allow from all" for directories in the form "/home/*/public_html", which does not include anything under /local. You can either change your home directory, or add <Directory /local/allan/gottlieb> Order allow,deny Allow from all [whatever other options you need] </Directory> in the apache config for the virtualhost you're using. As for the "FollowSymlinks" and "SymlinksIfOwnerMatch" options, I'm not sure they apply here: they should only affect whether the server follows symlinks *within* the document root, not symlinks in the path *leading to* the document root. andrea
