[users@httpd] Symbolic links under Apache 2.0.54

[Forrest Aldrich <forrie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently ran into this problem:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28515

The bug report is from 2004... but it still appears to exist.

To test this, I did:

<Directory "/path/to/files">
    Options FollowSymlinks Indexes
    AllowOverride AuthConfig
</Directory>

In /usr/local/www/data:

ln -s /path/to/files .

And I go to the browser:

http://mysite.com/files

which generates this error:

You don't have permission to access /mp3 on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I also tried tweaking SymlinksIfOwnerMatch, etc.  I verified that the permissions are okay (as far as I can tell).

Note the ErrorDocument problem - I've not even changed any of those and I have no ErrorDocument directives in my configuration.

Thanks,

Forrest