Re: [users@httpd] mod_userdir and FollowSymLinks frustration

[Shawn Wilson <lannocc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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: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
>
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