Hey Experts!
I'm in a situation where I need to create a symlink from one domain to another in PLESK 8.1. Althought the symlink is properly created, I keep getting a FORBIDDEN error from Apache when trying to access files which should be accessible through the symlink.
I'm guessing this is a chown issue where Apache is locked down by PLESK to not allow symlinks between domains.
Does anyone know a simple way around this? If so, are there serious security implications to your suggested change?
Thanks a lot!
Brendan
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Hey Nopius!
Thanks for your quick reply. Here is how my httpd.conf file is currently configured...
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
Can you give me the exact syntax of what I need to change in order to allow symlinks between domains?
I look forward to your reply. Thanks!
Brendan
Hey Nopius!
Just to be sure you have all the information you need...
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
#
# Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
# particular features to be enabled - so if something's not working as
# you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
# below.
#
#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory "/var/www/html">
#
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
# or any combination of:
# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
#
# Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All"
# doesn't give it to you.
#
# The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see
# http://httpd.apache.org/do
# for more information.
#
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride None
#
# Controls who can get stuff from this server.
#
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
I look forward to your reply. Thanks!
Brendan
Hey Nopius!
I triggered the error and then viewed the log files and there didn't seem to be any errors listed within the most recent 20 minutes. So I don't think this error is registering. To calrify, the log file you suggested I tail didn't exist so I used the command below.
tail -50 /var/log/httpd/error_log
Thanks for your help! What do you suggest? Let me know.
Brendan
If you get 'forbidden' then _very_ likely there are some logs about your access attempt. Maybe not in this file. May be in /var/log/httpd/access_log (try tail that file).
Or you may have different logfiles for different domains. To check it, run
grep -i errorlog httpd.conf
and post results here.
If there is nothing either in access_log or in error_log (or in all logs for all domains if you have separate), then probably 'forbidden' comes not from Apache or your server, but from some kind of proxy between you and Apache. Please provide what exact error message your browser says.
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by: NopiusPosted on 2007-03-22 at 00:36:16ID: 18769595
There is an option in httpd.conf to allow following symlinks:
Options FollowSymLinks
Without this option following symlinks is forbidden.
Read here: http://httpd.apache.org/do
What is the exact error text? Please provide the error line from apache error_log file.