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[users@httpd] SymLinks
Hi all,
My first posting here. I hope this isn't a FAQ but I have trawled the
FAQ and found nothing that matches my problem exactly.
I have Apache 2.0.52 running. This came stock with Fedora Core 3 and my
web pages are running great, including the ones run with .htaccess. My
problem is with symbolic links in my /var/www/html directory. I cannot
get access and always get the error..
FORBIDDEN
You don't have permission to access /usermanual_en.html on this server
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use
an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
I have FollowSymLinks set (it was there at default) in httpd.conf and
the symlink worked perfectly well before I installed FC3. Permissions
on the symlink look like this..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Nov 17 13:56 usermanual_en.html -
> /spider/html/usermanual_en.html
and the actual file is readable..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 sysop spider 18353 Jun 26 00:17 usermanual_en.html
I suspect it is something very simple but it is doing my head in!
Thanks
Ian
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Re: [users@httpd] SymLinks
Posted by Eimantas Vaičiūnas <ei...@sc.vu.lt>.
On Monday 22 November 2004 13:14, Ian J Maude wrote:
> Hi all,
> My first posting here. I hope this isn't a FAQ but I have trawled the
> FAQ and found nothing that matches my problem exactly.
>
> I have Apache 2.0.52 running. This came stock with Fedora Core 3 and my
> web pages are running great, including the ones run with .htaccess. My
> problem is with symbolic links in my /var/www/html directory. I cannot
> get access and always get the error..
>
> FORBIDDEN
>
> You don't have permission to access /usermanual_en.html on this server
>
> Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use
> an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
>
> I have FollowSymLinks set (it was there at default) in httpd.conf and
> the symlink worked perfectly well before I installed FC3. Permissions
> on the symlink look like this..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Nov 17 13:56 usermanual_en.html -
>
> > /spider/html/usermanual_en.html
>
> and the actual file is readable..
>
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 sysop spider 18353 Jun 26 00:17 usermanual_en.html
>
> I suspect it is something very simple but it is doing my head in!
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian
Something is wrong with permissions (maybe wrong directory owner?)
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Re: [users@httpd] SymLinks
Posted by Ralf Glauberman <rg...@michaeli-gymnasium.de>.
only an idea, haven't uses symlinks myself:
set a <Directory> block for the directory including the target of the link.
grant "allow from all" for this dir.
you can also try "su www" and then try to open the link to see if
unixpermissions are ok.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian J Maude" <ia...@gb7mbc.net>
To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] SymLinks
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 12:38 +0000, Nick Kew wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Ian J Maude wrote:
>>
>> > I suspect it is something very simple but it is doing my head in!
>>
>> Looking in the error log is something very simple, yesno?
>>
> It is indeed Nick and I have looked there. Below is an extract. It
> states symbolic links are not required but I also include a section from
> httpd.conf that hopefully shows that I have allowed their usage. I
> would have included these in the earlier mail but I thought it might get
> a little long and was hoping that others had come across the same thing.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> [Mon Nov 22 08:54:21 2004] [error] [client 207.46.98.126] Symbolic link
> not allowed: /var/www/html/filtering_en.html
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
>
> #
> # Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with
> respect
> # to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
> # directory (and its subdirectories).
> #
> # First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
> # features.
> #
> <Directory />
> Options FollowSymLinks
> AllowOverride None
> </Directory>
>
> #
> # Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
> # particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
> # you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
> # below.
> #
>
> #
> # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
> #
> <Directory "/var/www/html">
>
> #
> # Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
> # or any combination of:
> # Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI
> MultiViews
> #
> # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
> # doesn't give it to you.
> #
> # The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
> # http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options
> # for more information.
> #
> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>
> #
> # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess
> files.
> # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
> # Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
> #
> AllowOverride None
>
> #
> # Controls who can get stuff from this server.
> #
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
>
> </Directory>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Regards
>
> Ian
>
> --
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> Sysop of GB7MBC, the Morecambe Bay Cluster
> Running Linux and DXSpider | K2 #4044
>
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Re: [users@httpd] SymLinks
Posted by Joshua Slive <js...@gmail.com>.
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:28:27 +0000, Ian J Maude <ia...@gb7mbc.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 12:38 +0000, Nick Kew wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Ian J Maude wrote:
> >
> > > I suspect it is something very simple but it is doing my head in!
> >
> > Looking in the error log is something very simple, yesno?
> >
> It is indeed Nick and I have looked there. Below is an extract. It
> states symbolic links are not required but I also include a section from
> httpd.conf that hopefully shows that I have allowed their usage. I
> would have included these in the earlier mail but I thought it might get
> a little long and was hoping that others had come across the same thing.
You have another Options directive someplace in your config
(httpd.conf, Include'd files, or .htaccess) that is turning off
symlinks (by not listing FollowSymLinks). Grep through your config
files.
Joshua.
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Re: [users@httpd] SymLinks
Posted by Ian J Maude <ia...@gb7mbc.net>.
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 12:38 +0000, Nick Kew wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Ian J Maude wrote:
>
> > I suspect it is something very simple but it is doing my head in!
>
> Looking in the error log is something very simple, yesno?
>
It is indeed Nick and I have looked there. Below is an extract. It
states symbolic links are not required but I also include a section from
httpd.conf that hopefully shows that I have allowed their usage. I
would have included these in the earlier mail but I thought it might get
a little long and was hoping that others had come across the same thing.
-------------------------------------------------
[Mon Nov 22 08:54:21 2004] [error] [client 207.46.98.126] Symbolic link
not allowed: /var/www/html/filtering_en.html
-------------------------------------------------
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
#
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with
respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
#
# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
# below.
#
#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory "/var/www/html">
#
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
# or any combination of:
# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI
MultiViews
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
# http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options
# for more information.
#
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess
files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride None
#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
-------------------------------------------------------------
Regards
Ian
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Sysop of GB7MBC, the Morecambe Bay Cluster
Running Linux and DXSpider | K2 #4044
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Re: [users@httpd] SymLinks
Posted by Nick Kew <ni...@webthing.com>.
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Ian J Maude wrote:
> I suspect it is something very simple but it is doing my head in!
Looking in the error log is something very simple, yesno?
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