I have setup a program called zoneminder and it uses apache for the gui and am having a permission issue. I log in as root and need to have a symbolic link from /var/www/html/zm/events to /home/zm/events. When I do that, root has permission to the symbolic link. I need to have apache to have ownership of the symbolic link. Whenever I attempt to access

I can see in the /var/log/httpd/error.log

and

or something like that. How can I give apache user and group permission to that symbolic link?

I have read


http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/core.html#options

but am having a little trouble with it.

I'm assuming that you've already turned on the FollowSymLinks option since the error is about the link target. It looks like the apache user/group don't have permissions for the /home/bpshady2 hierarchy. Off the top of my head, you can either:

- Change the group ownership of /home/bpshady2 and the required directories and files under it to apache;
- Add permissions for "other" users to /home/bpshady2, /home/bpshady2/zm & /home/bpshady2/zm/events and the required files; or
- Move the files out of /home/bpshady2 to a shared area and link to that instead (from /home/bpshady2 as well if required).

Will that do what you need?

Can you give me an example?

It worked, many thanks. Just digging deeper in to Linux.

Sorry - I missed your post, but it's good news that you've got it working.