These are access.log and error.log entries. I added the + to the FollowSymLinks and no obvious change occurred, These resemble the same errors before modifying the file. I remembered to restart apache2. 87.138.223.233 - - [02/Jun/2019:11:35:08 +0200] "GET /minecraft/www/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403 3852 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0" [Sun Jun 02 11:35:08.859778 2019] [core:error] [pid 17274] [client 87.138.223.233:38826] AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/sellfam.com/public/minecraft/www I don't know what you mean by adding an alias to a directory section. Last night, I remembered I did get this to work once on a FreeBSD 4 box back in 2000 where I made symbolic links to user home directories, but that was Apache 1.3 and it was compiled from source. But some 10 years later, from a Debian package, I never could get it to work and finally upgraded to a 160GB hard disk so there were some substantial changes to what was allowed by default. The structure of Apache configuration was exploded into a complexity that I'd have to totally relearn everything since shutting my old webserver down. It seems as if my old Piper Cub turned into a Boeing 727. On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 5:18 PM Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I get a 403 Forbidden error at https://sellfam.com/minecraft/www/ > > > > I told it to follow symlinks in the sites-available files and it > > should just work, but doesn't... What on earth is wrong? Oh yes, I > > did remember to restart apache2 as well. > > What does the error log say? > > > Options FollowSymLinks ### <--- I did the same here too > Probably better to do +FollowSymlinks and not be implicitly unsetting > all other options. > > Finally, have you considered just adding an Alias and a corresponding > <Directory> section? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx