FC5 Apache can't display symlinks

bricox · 05-10-2006, 01:42 PM

I just recently upgraded from FC2 to FC5. I have apache configured as my webserver. I also have a mount point (CIFS since the upgrade) that points to a windows share. In my www/html directory I have a symlink that points to this mount point. This windows share contains Word Docs that I serve to my users. Now when users click on one of the links Word opens up on their machine, but they get a blank document.

I can open these files from the server by going through the symlink. I can also see a listing of the directory in my browser. As an additional test I put a "test.html" document on this share and it opens in my browser without problem. I don't see any error messages in my error log or my access log, but I can't seem to open the Word docs (or Excel docs too).

Any suggestions?

frankjoshua · 05-10-2006, 02:14 PM

Are you using Firefox or Mozilla? It could be browser security settings. Check out this article.

bricox · 05-10-2006, 03:54 PM

I've tried Firefox and IE. Neither are working. They both worked up until I upgraded the server.

onyxBlackstone · 08-01-2006, 03:52 PM

Same issue here bricox, but it appears to be any binary file my issue is with JPG (All my images are on the windows share) tried a .doc too after I saw this post and got the same problem. But its fine with a text file ?!?!?!?!?

Anyone have any ideas or bricox do you solve it?

bricox · 08-04-2006, 08:28 AM

Yes, I did finally manage to solve this. I don't remember where I saw the article to point me in this direction, but what I did was change EnableMMAP to off. By default it is on. That appeared to fix it.

pruhnke · 11-11-2006, 08:27 AM

I am running FC5 with Apache 2.2.2, and I had the same problem. I am using the box to run a personal site to share pictures of my daughter with the family, GBs worth of pictures on my Windows PC being shared via CIFS.

Any way i found this post and tried setting EnableMMAP off, but found this did not fix my issue. I did however fix my issue by setting EnableSendfile to off. Once that fixed it turned it back up globally and shut is down just for the CIFS directory.

Code:

 
<Directory /var/www/html/images/winpic>
  EnableSendfile Off 
</Directory>

More information on this serivce can be found here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod...enablesendfile

Hope this helps others it took me a few days to find this before I rembered good ole linuxquestions.org

rickyone · 11-22-2006, 01:31 AM

Thanks! That made my day! Finally my stuff works!

I am also using FC5 with Apache 2.2.2.

During my debug session I found wget helpful.
I was trying with wget to get files from my Windows(CIFS) share, but other than .html files, I did not get anything (0 bytes).

I simply uncommented "EnableSendfile off" in my httpd.conf file and all started working fine!

--------------
wget http // myserver/myCIFSshare/front.gif
--02:58:08-- http // myserver/myCIFSshare/front.gif
=> `front.gif'
Resolving myserver... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to myserver|127.0.0.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9,320 (9.1K) [image/gif]

0% [ ] 0 --.--K/s

02:58:08 (0.00 B/s) - Connection closed at byte 0. Retrying.

--02:58:09-- http // myserver/myCIFSshare/front.gif.1
(try: 2) => `front.gif.1'
Connecting to myserver|127.0.0.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9,320 (9.1K) [image/gif]
front.gif.1 has sprung into existence.
Retrying.