From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 9:41:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D81637B958 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:41:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from williamsl@home.com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000626164139.DHGV25587.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE>; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:41:39 -0700 Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:41:13 -0400 From: Ben Williams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.39) Personal Organization: Williams Enterprises X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1528.000626@home.com> To: Spikeman Cc: jimmy martin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: apache and system links In-reply-To: <39571023.40B44C8E@myself.com> References: <39571023.40B44C8E@myself.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You may also be having an issue with the symlink being outside the HTML tree. I would certainly recommend doing as Spikeman suggested and enable userdirs in the httpd.conf instead. You might also be able to get some information from Apache's website at http://www.apache.org/ --Ben Williams mailto:received@email dot com Quoting Spikeman Monday, June 26, 2000 > Are the perms on home dir right? If I remember right doesnt apache > have a user home dir where all you would have to do is put in a > public_html and not have to link it? anyways yea check the home > dir's perms... > jimmy martin wrote: >> How do i configure apache to follow system links? Right now i just have the >> default install... I goto /usr/local/www/data and type 'ln -s /home/user >> user' then try and load www.site.org/user and it says forbidden. >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- > ___ > /\ \ phase two of global domination in operation, hide all lions. > /::\ \ > /:/\:\ \ Comments or Questions email spikeman@myself.com > _\:\~\:\ \ > /\ \:\ \:\__\ Spikeman spikeman@myself.com > \:\ \:\ \/__/ http://www.spikeman.net > \:\ \:\__\ Find Me On EFNET /whois Spikeman > \:\/:/ / > \::/ / Friends are lights in winter; > \/__/ The older the friend, the brighter the light. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message