Hello all,
Heres the scenario: I have my software, linux isos, games and all that other stuff for installation in /home/kaloian/dsk. I want to share it on my website (Apache), so I made a symlink "ln -s /home/kaloian/dsk/ /var/www/htdocs/local"; I browse my website and the "dsk" folder apperas, but when I click on it it says 403 forbidden, obviously because it tries to fetch the files from /home/kaloian/dsk, which is outside the apache root folder.
I tried to change the permissions of the symlink to root but it didn't work as well.
Please give me ideas how I will be able to do that as I don't want to simply move the data to the website folder, but to keep it where it is, and just link it.
Thanks in advance!
Kaloyan

What permissions are set on the directory in your home folder? mainly under others. You may need to add execute, to allow cdiing into the directories.

in my home folder it was kaloian users before changing and now its root root.
drwxrw-r-- 6 kaloian users 4096 2004-08-16 12:27 dsk/

In the parent directory type:

chmod o+x dsk/

now ls -l should produce
drwxrw-r-x 6 kaloian users 4096 2004-08-16 12:27 dsk/

Apache shouldn't be root, so changing the owner doesn't help. You just need to change the permissions to allow others access.

AH.....
yes
drwxrw-r-x 6 kaloian users 4096 2004-08-16 12:27 dsk/
this is exactly what the new value is but when I click on the symlink folder "dsk" it still says 403 Forbidden. I even chmod'ed -R recursively. This didnt work neither.
Any other ideas?

here is some info that might help:

All I can think of is there is a security setting in Apache thats preventing this from working.

Try adding the FollowSymLinks to the options for apache, I haven't done any Aapche work for a while so I'm a little rusty on the options, check out Apache Core Features.

All I had to do is add FollowSymLinks in the .htaccess file in there.
Thanks alot for your support,
Have a happy new year