Could you try to add the following to your configuration? <DirectoryMatch ^/var/www/[^/]+/htdocs> Options FollowSymLinks </DirectoryMatch> -ascs -----Original Message----- From: Shawn Wilson [mailto:lannocc@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 12:00 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [users@httpd] 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx