apache symboliclink

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 20, 2009, at 02:05, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:

> 2009/9/20 Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>:
>> On Sep 20, 2009, at 01:12, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure why an upgrade would have affected this. But for each  
>> of the
>> places that the symlinks point to, do you have a Directory block  
>> allowing
>> access to them? e.g.
>>
>> <Directory /place/your/symlink/points/to>
>>   Order allow,deny
>>   Allow from all
>> </Directory>
>>
>
> previously there was no block for this. but it was working ok. here is
> my current htdocs folder
>
> railsp:htdocs lavlu$ ls -l
> total 24
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  admin    21 Sep 20 11:53 1324.php
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin    29 Sep 20 12:00 bba ->
> /Users/lavlu/projects/php/bba
> -rw-r--r--   2 root  admin    44 Nov 21  2004 index.html
> drwx---r-x  44 root  admin  1496 Sep 20 11:55 swiblog
>
> and added directory block on httpd.conf
>
> <Directory "/Users/lavlu/projects/php">
>    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>    AllowOverride None
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from all
>
> </Directory>

That's the block I meant. So if you have that there, and it's still  
not working after restarting apache, then that's not the problem.


> any idea ?

Does the apache error log give any more information?