Apache does not show and does not follow SymLinks

apache-2.2symbolic-link

On Linux Fedora 15, Apache doesn't follow symlinks, and they did not show in directory index… Can you help me why?

Just to mention that in httpd.conf I do have :

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

Also, User and Group defined in httpd.conf are owners of proper directories where is web application saved…

Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thank you in advance!!!

UPDATE: is a problem occured because target is on the other hard drive?

UPDATE 2: it follows symbolic links, but this link for some reason is not followed. It points to the dir on other hard drive.

UPDATE 3: there is "nothing special" after first direction, ie:

<Directory "/var/www/html">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Best Answer

Make sure that Apache has read permission in the directory the link points too. Giving read permission on the link itself is not sufficient.

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I recently struggled with the same problem on my Fedora 10 system. In my case the culprit was some odd redirection that I was doing in Apache. Specifically, I use a content management system (Drupal, to be exact) that within it's .htaccess includes the following redirection logic to redirect missing files to a PHP script:

# Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

It makes sense that the above only affects the PUT method since in that case REQUEST_FILENAME does not exist.

Not having the WebDAV area inside of the Drupal area, which seems like a reasonable constraint, fixes the problem.

Also, I think it is likely that SELinux would result in a different error, but it's not mentioned in the discussion above. Did you try disabling SELinux?

Apache2 Permission denied: access to / denied

Remove:

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all

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