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john abreau writes:
>>> SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

> I didn't notice this at the InstallFest. It probably means
> that symlinks will only work if they're owned by the web
> user and/or web group. On Fedora this is user "apache" and
> group "apache".

> Try changing "SymLinksIfOwnerMatch" to "FollowSymLinks", to
> test this hypothesis.

> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:05 AM, <> wrote:

>> Dan Kressin <dkressin-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:
>>>--- On Tue, 11/23/10, j. daniel moylan-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org <j. daniel
>> moylan-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>> though the following is in
>>>> httpd.conf, sym links are not followed:
>>>>
>>>>   <Directory />
>>>>     Options FollowSymLinks
>>>>     AllowOverride None
>>>>   </Directory>
>>>>
>>>> is there something additional/different i should be doing?
>>
>>> Do you have a similar stanza matching whatever
>>> DocumentRoot is set to?  What options are set there?
>>
>>   DocumentRoot "/var/www"
>>
>>  <Directory "/var/www">
>>    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>>    AllowOverride None
>>    Order allow,deny
>>    Allow from all
>>  </Directory>
>>
>>  <IfModule mod_userdir.c>
>>      UserDir www
>>  </IfModule>
>>
>>  <Directory /home/*/www>
>>     AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
>>     Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
>>     <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
>>         Order allow,deny
>>         Allow from all
>>     </Limit>
>>     <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
>>         Order deny,allow
>>         Deny from all
>>     </LimitExcept>
>>  </Directory>

did this -- unfortunately, same result -- restarted htppd,
then rebooted -- no change.

  Options MultiViews Indexes FollowSymLinks IncludesNoExec

thanks,
ole dan

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