apache problem

[John Abreau]

You don't need to open it up that much to get httpd to follow the symlinks.
All it needs is execute permissions on the parent directories.

It's enough to set it to 711 instead of 755.



On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:36 PM, <> wrote:

> dan kressin writes:
> >--- On Wed, 11/24/10, j. daniel moylan-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org <j. daniel
> moylan-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> did this -- unfortunately, same result -- restarted htppd,
> >> then rebooted -- no change.
> >>
> >>   Options MultiViews Indexes FollowSymLinks
> >> IncludesNoExec
>
> > What are the permissions on the dir/file the symlink points
> > to?  What error do you see in the browser?  Is there
> > anything in the Apache access and/or error logs?
> > (/var/log/httpd/{access,error}.log, typically)
>
> ha!!  my bad -- the sym links pointed to stuff in my home
> directory, and though all my directory permissions were
> fine, i hadn't noticed that /home itself was set to 700
> (new operating system installation)!  i changed that to
> 755 and all is well.
>
> thanks,
> ole dan
>
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