RE: symbolic link to public_html folders

[Manoj Samtani <manoj.kumar84@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jason,

What error you are getting in error_logs??

Did you enabled following:

+FollowSymlinks

UserDir disabled
UserDir enabled user1 user2 user3   ???

Regards,

Manoj Samtani

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From: jgbaum@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:22:17 -0700
To: rainer.jung@xxxxxxxxxxx
CC: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: symbolic link to public_html folders

I tried that one too, but no luck.  Thanks for the response.

-Jason

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Rainer Jung <rainer.jung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 21.09.2010 22:18, J Greenbaum wrote:

Hi,

I'm having trouble configuring apache so that the public_html folder can
be a symbolic link to another directory.  On my Ubuntu 10.04
installation, my userdir.conf file includes the 'FollowSymLinks' option
for the /home/*/public_html directories.  However, if I try to access my
user directory from a browser 'http://localhost/~username', I get a 403
Forbidden error.  In the apache error log, it says:

Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible:
/home/username/public_html

I have ruled out the possibility that this is a permission problem since
I can access the directory directly rather than through the symbolic link.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Could it be "SymLinksIfOwnerMatch":

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#options

Regards,

Rainer