Oh silly me. It worked for me because I put in on the / directory...
I made a few tests (on Solaris). I managed to establish that
<Directory "/">
Options None
AllowOverride All
Order deny, allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
<Directory /u01/assmorg/public_html>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
</Directory>
does work but
<DirectoryMatch ^/u01/[^/]+/public_html>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
</DirectoryMatch>
does not.
So, I cannot see any reason why your config should not work for you...
-ascs
-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 6:13 PM
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mod_userdir and FollowSymLinks frustration
Gave it a try, made no difference. As I understand it, the FollowSymLinks
option is only required at the location of the symlink itself and not it's
target, right?
Thanks,
-shawn
Axel-Stéphane SMORGRAV wrote:
> Could you try to add the following to your configuration?
>
> <DirectoryMatch ^/var/www/[^/]+/htdocs>
> Options FollowSymLinks
> </DirectoryMatch>
>
> -ascs
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 12:00 AM
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mod_userdir and FollowSymLinks frustration
>
> I am having trouble getting my user's web directories to behave the
> FollowSymLinks option. I know I must be making a stupid mistake here but I
> have spent way too much time trying to track down the problem.
>
> I'm using Apache 2.0.54 on Gentoo, and have taken the issue down a very basic
> config which illustrates the problem:
>
> # cat /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
> User apache
> Group apache
> Listen 80
> PidFile "/var/run/apache2.pid"
> LogLevel Debug
> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/test.log
> LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so LoadModule dir_module
> modules/mod_dir.so DirectoryIndex index.html <Directory
> /home/avarice/public_html>
> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks </Directory>
>
> # ls -l /home/avarice/public_html/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 avarice users 12 Jun 18 2001 index.html
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Aug 4 15:22 richhorner ->
> /var/www/richhorner.com/htdocs/
>
> # ls -ld /var/www/richhorner.com/htdocs/ drwxr-xr-x 13 avarice users
> 624 Aug 3 14:27 /var/www/richhorner.com/htdocs/
>
>
> Now, when I visit http://myserver/~avarice I get the (unparsed)
> contents of index.html, as expected. If I remove the "Indexes" option
> from my config I no longer get the index.html file contents by
> default, again as expected (just to make sure that Options line was getting
> used).
>
> However, when I try to access http://myserver/~avarice/richhorner I
> get an access denied error:
>
> # cat /var/log/apache2/test.log
> [Thu Aug 04 15:39:03 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Thu
> Aug 04 15:39:04 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Gentoo/Linux) configured
> -- resuming normal operations [Thu Aug 04 15:39:04 2005] [info] Server
> built: Jul 27 2005 16:28:52 [Thu Aug 04 15:39:04 2005] [debug]
> prefork.c(956): AcceptMutex: sysvsem
> (default: sysvsem)
> [Thu Aug 04 15:39:07 2005] [error] [client 63.168.208.50] Symbolic
> link not allowed: /home/avarice/public_html/richhorner
>
>
> I have tried and tried, but cannot get this to work. I successfully
> use FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch elsewhere in my full
> configuration, but when it comes to mod_userdir I'm having trouble.
>
> Thanks,
> -shawn
>
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