How do you turn on Follow Sym links?

Quoting Jacob Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> 
> > what are symlinks?
> >
> > On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 04:35  PM, Brent Thomson wrote:
> >
> >> Assuming you're using Apache and have FollowSymLinks enabled, you can
> >> make (you guessed it) a symlink to the file you want to give access to
> >> from a directory that is within webroot.
> >>
> >> -Brent
> >
> A symbolic link (symlink) is somewhat analogous to a shortcut in 
> winders. To create a symbolic link, use the following syntax:
> 
> ln -s /path/to/real/file link_name
> 
> eg.
> 
> ln -s /mnt/media/music /var/www/web_page/music/
> 
> where /var/www/web_page/ would be the web page's root.
> 
> Then, assuming the files in /mnt/media/music have the necessary 
> permissions, I could browse the files online using www.example.com/music/...
> 
> Jacob Fugal
> 
> 
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