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On Jul 13, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Before I received a reply, I did some
testing and added Options Indexes FollowSymLinks to my alias
directive, and everything started working.
It should go in a <Directory /your/document/root> block in the
<VirtualHost *:80> block. If there is no <VirtualHost> block, then
somewhere after the DocumentRoot declaration.
It should be Options +FollowSymLinks (always use +/- before the
option)
I am curious though, I did not add a "+" before, yet it is still
working. What is the benefit to adding that?
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks # Enable only these options
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks # Add these two options to any
previously enabled options
So if you were to do:
<VirtualHost ...>
<Directory /webroot>
Options FollowSymLinks # Only FollowSymLinks, all other
options disabled
</Directory>
<Directory /webroot/cgi>
Options ExecCGI # Only ExecCGI, all other options disabled
</Directory>
<Directory /webroot/uploads>
Options +Indexes # FollowSymLinks and Indexes are both enabled
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options
Doug Bell -- Senior Developer, Plain Black Corp.
[ http://plainblack.com ]
all that groks is
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Doug Bell <d...@plainblack.com>
wrote:
On Jul 13, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
I am running Mac OS X 10.5.7 with Apache 2.2.11 installed. I have an
audio application that creates an html log file of tracks that are
playing. I am trying to use a symbolic link to access the html file
so I can post it on my site over my LAN. The file resides in a
directory inside
of my documents folder...
/Users/[username]/Documents/MegaSeg User Data/Logs
I have verified that the permissions to all of the parent directories
have at least execute privileges for others. The html log file I am
trying to link to has the following privileges...
-rw-r--r--@ 1 [username] staff 625 Jul 10 17:17 NowPlaying.html
I used the following command to setup my symbolic link...
ln -s /Users/[username]/Documents/MegaSeg\ User\ Data/Logs/
NowPlaying.html nowplaying.html
That seemed to work fine, because when I do an ls -al in my website's
folder I see the link. I have a basic index.html, with a link to
nowplaying.html, but when I click on the link I get a 403 Forbidden
error.
What does the error log say exactly? http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DistrosDefaultLayout#head-71b68a0694807d2b3b5d02e46b7a11f01fdd4836
<- find your error log here
In reading the Apache documentation, I found that I may need to have
FollowSymLinks somewhere in my configuration, but I am not sure from
the Apache documentation where that should go. I assume it would
either be in the form of a .htaccess file, or somewhere in the
httpd.conf file. It should be noted that the DocumentRoot directory
I am using is configured as an Alias in my httpd.conf. I am sure
that this is configured correctly as I can access it just fine over
my LAN.
It should go in a <Directory /your/document/root> block in the
<VirtualHost *:80> block. If there is no <VirtualHost> block, then
somewhere after the DocumentRoot declaration.
It should be Options +FollowSymLinks (always use +/- before the
option)
