Issues Uploading via Apache to Symbolic Linked Folder

asketchyfish · 09-13-2012, 01:38 PM

I am currently having an issue where I am trying to upload files from a webpage to a symbolically linked folder (which is a mounted NFS device) that is not under the document root. However, whenever I try and upload a file, it returns that the folder is not able to be found.

I already have FollowSymLinks enabled, and the mounted share is given the same permissions as my apache user at mount time.

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/admin"
    <Directory "/var/www/admin">
        Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
    ServerName admin.xyz.com
    ServerAlias admin.xyz.com
    ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/admin-error.log"
    CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/admin-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

Code:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 opensnow webadmins     20 Sep 13 12:45 uploads -> /mnt/hut/os_uploads/

acid_kewpie · 09-14-2012, 06:51 AM

have you created a <directory> definition for that location? Personally I would suggest you *don't* symlink it and instead use an Alias definition - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod...ias.html#alias

asketchyfish · 09-14-2012, 01:05 PM

I switched to aliases over symlinks. Reading the folders is not an issue still, however I am still having issue writing to the directory from PHP uploads.

acid_kewpie · 09-14-2012, 02:03 PM

well if you want help, you need to give us more information than that.

asketchyfish · 09-14-2012, 02:12 PM

When trying to do a PHP file upload I get no errors in my error log, the file is just not created on the server.

Apache is running as user: opensnow with the group webadmins.

This is my /etc/fstab

Code:

nas100.service.softlayer.com:/SLXXX /mnt/hut cifs rwx,hard,intr,exec,uid=opensnow,gid=webadmins,file_mode=0666,dir_mode=0777,username=xxx,password=xxx 0 0

And my httpd.conf

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/opensnow"
    <Directory "/var/www/opensnow">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
        AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
    Alias /uploads /mnt/hut/os_uploads
    Alias /vanilla/uploads /mnt/hut/os_uploads
    Alias /vanilla/utility/thumbnail /mnt/hut/os_forums/thumbnails
    Alias /js/upload /mnt/hut/os_uploads
    <Directory "/mnt/hut/os_uploads">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
    </Directory>
    <Directory "/mnt/hut/os_forums">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
    </Directory>
    ServerName www.opensnow.com
</VirtualHost>