I finally figured out what was wrong. At the very bottom of httpd.conf was the line:
Include /private/etc/httpd/users/*.conf This was including a file that was overwriting all my previous settings. How frustrating! On 6/23/05, Carl Youngblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I have +FollowSymLinks set on /Users/*/Sites, which is used for each > user's root dir. The symlink is in that directory, and it points to another > directory inside the same directory. > > Thanks, > Carl > > On 6/23/05, Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/23/05, Carl Youngblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm having trouble trying to execute CGIs and follow symlinks under > > > user web shares (~user style directories) on Mac OS X Tiger. > > > > > > I've changed httpd.conf so that the / and DocumentRoot directories > > > both have AllowOverride Options. I've turned web sharing on. I've set > > > the user dir (/Users/*/Sites) to Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks, and > > > yet I get a forbidden message every time I try to either follow a > > > symlink or execute a cgi script. Here is what I get in the Apache > > > error log: > > > > > > [Wed Jun 22 21:11:28 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Options ExecCGI > > > is off in this directory: /Users/carl/Sites/test.cgi > > > [Wed Jun 22 21:11:41 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Symbolic link > > > not allowed: /Users/carl/Sites/symlink/ > > > > > > If I try to do these things in the DocumentRoot > > > (/Library/Webserver/Documents), it works just fine. It's almost as if > > > mod_userdir is ignoring my options directives. I've tried specifying > > > the directives both inside httpd.conf and in an .htaccess file and > > > neither seems to work. > > > > For symlinks to work, the FollowSymLinks option must be present for > > the directory containing the symlink, not the target directory. Are > > you sure you have done that? Have you tried allowing symlinks from > > the root? --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
