Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:22:05 +0100 From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> To: "'Derek Ragona'" <derek@computinginnovations.com>, "'David Karapetyan'" <david.karapetyan@gmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Apache aliased directory invisible Message-ID: <23582B33F3AD4C5F84CFF64D6A00BB93@wbt.wbtsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20081021060221.0257aff0@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <20081021031603.GB45624@vagrant.hsd1.in.comcast.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20081021060221.0257aff0@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Derek Ragona > Sent: 21 October 2008 12:07 > To: David Karapetyan; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Apache aliased directory invisible > > At 10:16 PM 10/20/2008, David Karapetyan wrote: > >FreeBSD office19.resnet.nd.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD > 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: > >Wed Oct 1 10:10:12 UTC 2008 > >root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > > >Hello all. I would like to make aliased directories in apache visible > >from the directory root. An example: When I visit > http://myserver.com/, > >I would like to see the 'icons' folder (suppose that in my > document root > >I have directories 'bobo' and 'gogo', but that /icons is actually an > >alias for /usr/local/share/icons). Bobo and gogo show up in the > >directoroy listing when I access http://myserver.com, but not /icons. > >How can I remedy this? > > add a symbolic link: > > ln -s /usr/local/share/icons [path to your doc root]/icons > > typically for apache22 this would be: > > ln -s /usr/local/share/icons /usr/local/www/apache22/data/icons > You may also want to check your apache config that the FollowSymLinks option is on. Something like: Options FollowSymLinks is in the appropriate place. Otherwise, Apache will ignore symbolic links. - barry
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