Re: Permissions problem with accessing a file via a symbolic link - (Mac OS X 10.5.7, Apache 2.2.11) (Apache Users)

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Doug Bell <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 13, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Scott Ford wrote:

I am running Mac OS X 10.5.7 with Apache 2.2.11 installed. I have an
audio application that creates an html log file of tracks that are
playing. I am trying to use a symbolic link to access the html file
so I can post it on my site over my LAN. The file resides in a directory inside
of my documents folder...
/Users/[username]/Documents/MegaSeg User Data/Logs
I have verified that the permissions to all of the parent directories
have at least execute privileges for others. The html log file I am
trying to link to has the following privileges...
-rw-r--r--@ 1 [username] staff 625 Jul 10 17:17 NowPlaying.html
I used the following command to setup my symbolic link...
ln -s /Users/[username]/Documents/MegaSeg\ User\ Data/Logs/
NowPlaying.html nowplaying.html
That seemed to work fine, because when I do an ls -al in my website's
folder I see the link. I have a basic index.html, with a link to
nowplaying.html, but when I click on the link I get a 403 Forbidden
error.

What does the error log say exactly? http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DistrosDefaultLayout#head-71b68a0694807d2b3b5d02e46b7a11f01fdd4836 <- find your error log here

In reading the Apache documentation, I found that I may need to have FollowSymLinks somewhere in my configuration, but I am not sure from the Apache documentation where that should go. I assume it would either be in the form of a .htaccess file, or somewhere in the httpd.conf file. It should be noted that the DocumentRoot directory I am using is configured as an Alias in my httpd.conf. I am sure that this is configured correctly as I can access it just fine over my LAN.

It should go in a <Directory /your/document/root> block in the <VirtualHost *:80> block. If there is no <VirtualHost> block, then somewhere after the DocumentRoot declaration.
It should be Options +FollowSymLinks (always use +/- before the option)

Doug Bell -- Senior Developer, Plain Black Corp.
[ http://plainblack.com ]
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