Thanks for your reply. Before I received a reply, I did some testing and added *Options Indexes FollowSymLinks *to my alias directive, and everything started working.
It should go in a <Directory /your/document/root> block in the <VirtualHost *:80> block. If there is no <VirtualHost> block, then somewhere after the DocumentRoot declaration. It should be Options +FollowSymLinks (always use +/- before the option) I am curious though, I did not add a "+" before, yet it is still working. What is the benefit to adding that? On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Doug Bell <d...@plainblack.com> wrote: > On Jul 13, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > > I am running Mac OS X 10.5.7 with Apache 2.2.11 installed. I have an >> audio application that creates an html log file of tracks that are >> playing. I am trying to use a symbolic link to access the html file >> so I can post it on my site over my LAN. The file resides in a directory >> inside >> of my documents folder... >> /Users/[username]/Documents/MegaSeg User Data/Logs >> I have verified that the permissions to all of the parent directories >> have at least execute privileges for others. The html log file I am >> trying to link to has the following privileges... >> -rw-r--r--@ 1 [username] staff 625 Jul 10 17:17 NowPlaying.html >> I used the following command to setup my symbolic link... >> ln -s /Users/[username]/Documents/MegaSeg\ User\ Data/Logs/ >> NowPlaying.html nowplaying.html >> That seemed to work fine, because when I do an ls -al in my website's >> folder I see the link. I have a basic index.html, with a link to >> nowplaying.html, but when I click on the link I get a 403 Forbidden >> error. >> >> What does the error log say exactly? > http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/DistrosDefaultLayout#head-71b68a0694807d2b3b5d02e46b7a11f01fdd4836 > <- > find your error log here > >> In reading the Apache documentation, I found that I may need to have >> FollowSymLinks somewhere in my configuration, but I am not sure from the >> Apache documentation where that should go. I assume it would either be in >> the form of a .htaccess file, or somewhere in the httpd.conf file. It >> should be noted that the DocumentRoot directory I am using is configured as >> an Alias in my httpd.conf. I am sure that this is configured correctly as I >> can access it just fine over my LAN. >> >> It should go in a <Directory /your/document/root> block in the > <VirtualHost *:80> block. If there is no <VirtualHost> block, then somewhere > after the DocumentRoot declaration. > It should be Options +FollowSymLinks (always use +/- before the option) > > Doug Bell -- Senior Developer, Plain Black Corp. > [ http://plainblack.com ] > all that groks is > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > -- Scott Ford Chief Technology Officer Michael Smith Event Music 8427 Ridpath Drive Los Angeles, CA 90046 (323) 848-7909 (office) (323) 848-7287 (fax) (213) 422-6665 (cell) http://www.smitheventmusic.com
