Paul B. Henson wrote:
Without commenting on the last part of the question, you might want to make sure that you are not getting bitten by this, as many people (including me) have been :On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:If you are not using RewriteRules then in .htaccess write Options -FollowSymLinks This will disable the working of RewriteRules also! If you are using RewriteRules, create a symlink and using FilesMatch specify the above option for the symlink name.My objective is to have SymlinkIfOwnerMatch apply; I actually did try putting -FollowSymLinks in a top level <Directory /> config, but the SSI include *still* followed the symlink. My question is whether or not it is expected that SSI includes will ignore the Apache symbolic link following configuration, or if it is a bug? (Or if I'm just doing something stupid, which is always a possibility)...
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/sections.html (read the very last paragraph carefully)In other words, check if by any chance you do not have some <Location> section negating all your configuration snippets for that <Directory>.
Example : DocumentRoot /var/www/mydocs <Directory /var/www/mydocs/mydir> some options here </Directory> ... many lines in-between ... <Location /mydir> other options here </Location>would make the options in <Location /mydir> prevail over the ones in the <Directory> section.
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