sounds like current default apache security
near the begining you of httpd.conf you will find
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/html">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
This effectively blocks you from sharing any directory (even aliased ones) unless the actual directory (no symlinks or aliases) is under /var/www.
to add in exceptions put this under your alias statement.
Alias /test /home/test
<Directory /home/test>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Boris Epstein
Sent: Fri 7/31/2009 9:17 AM
To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Apache not liking directories outside of /var/www
Hi all,
It appears that on my nice little CentOS 5.3 machines Apache only
allows me to store content in directories which are under /var/www/
For instance, putting content in /var/www/test and defining the following alias:
Alias /test /var/www/test
then accessing it under http://hostname/test works great.
Not copy that same content to /home/test, change the alias to:
Alias /test /home/test
and you get Error 403.
Any idea why that would be?
Never had this sort of trouble anywhere, including under CentOS 5.0 and 5.1
Thanks in advance for any and all help.
Boris.
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