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I can't seem to get a symlink working in my Apache VirtualHost, no matter what I try and I see the following error in the error log:

Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/carddesigner

I can browse the actual symlink from Linux with no problems whatsoever:

$ ls -l /var/www | grep "carddesigner" lrwxrwxrwx 1 rfkrocktk rfkrocktk 64 2011-02-28 16:52 carddesigner -> /home/rfkrocktk/Documents/Projects/Work/carddesigner/build/main/

Additionally, I've made sure that the my VirtualHost allows the FollowSymLinks option:

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-localhost:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80> ServerAdmin ########## DocumentRoot /var/www <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Deny from all </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel debug CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" <Directory "/usr/share/doc/"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 </Directory> RewriteEngine On RewriteLog "/var/log/apache2/mod_rewrite.log" RewriteLogLevel 9 </VirtualHost>

I can't seem to find any other configuration files that seem to override this and/or prevent symlinks from being loaded. Any ideas?

Here are my permissions on the actual referenced files:

$ ls -l ~/Documents/Projects/Work/carddesigner/build/main total 12 drwxrwxrwx 5 rfkrocktk rfkrocktk 4096 2011-02-28 16:11 advanced drwxrwxrwx 2 rfkrocktk rfkrocktk 4096 2011-02-28 16:10 core drwxrwxrwx 2 rfkrocktk rfkrocktk 4096 2011-02-28 16:10 simple

Seems like the permissions are good to go, right?

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What are the file permissions for the documents in /home/rfkrocktk/Documents/Projects/Work/carddesigner/build/main? They must be readable by the web server as well, not only the symlink.

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  • See my latest edit, seems like the permissions are good to go. Commented Mar 1, 2011 at 2:56
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    For a symlink to work, the webserver must be able to traverse the whole tree down to that path. So, if any of the directories down to main are not executable for everyone, this won't work. Commented Mar 1, 2011 at 3:07
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    Had the same problem and the comment is important, check if your Apache can enter the directory, so all directories in path must have appropriate rights. Commented Oct 27, 2011 at 13:09
  • @SvenW You comment is SUPER important. Anyone having this issue, please pay attention. I finally got my deployment to work after making sure my permissions were as SvenW described. Commented May 28, 2012 at 6:26
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ls -Z /pat/to/www drwxr-xr-x. root root unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 www chcon -Rv --type=httpd_sys_content_t /pat/to/www
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