general/2636: Symbolic Links not allow

[Steve Liang <sl...@math.ucr.edu>]

>Number:         2636
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       Symbolic Links not allow
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 16 12:10:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     sliang@math.ucr.edu
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        Apache-1.3.0
>Environment:
SunOS math 5.5 Generic_103093-12 sun4m sparc SUNW,Sun_4_600
>Description:
In the htdocs, the symbolic links works fine. But in 
user's account, the symbolic links are not allow.

The option we had for symbolic links in access.conf is

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

>How-To-Repeat:
We change back to apache-1.2.0. The following is what 
I got from the error logs:

[Wed Jul 15 16:32:23 1998] [error] Symbolic link not allowed: /home/atristan/.ww
w/index.html
[Wed Jul 15 16:32:23 1998] [error] Symbolic link not allowed: /home/ftm/.www/R.g
if
>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
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