Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:15:11 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl or system tweak for symbolic links? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0509101414070.28753@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <4321D164.5000602@forrie.com> References: <4321D164.5000602@forrie.com>
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On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Hi, > > Using FreeBSD_6.0_Beta4 (applies to Beta2, also). > > I'm trying to track down a problem I've been having with apache-2.0.54 not > following symbolic links. > > It's basically come down to my being able to follow the link if it's in the > same directory structure (ie: .. or /path/to/..), but fails if the symbolic > link is located elsewhere (ie: /usr/local/path/directory) or on another disk. > > I wonder if there's a sysctl or other system variable that handles the > behavior of or access to symbolic links in this fashion that I may have > missed. Seemed like a reasonable conclusion after these tests have been > failing, though it could be something else, too. Stock apache configuration. Look at the documentation for the "Options" directive, particularly "SymLinksIfOwnerMatch". -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Just because I have nothing to hide doesn't mean I have nothing to fear.
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