Can any one please help me regarding to the Soft link folder / file browsing problem in APACHE .

I have created a folder on the /var/www/html named "test" and created one home.html . Now I have created one soft link of home.html file into the test folder named test.html and set 777 file-folder permission .

Its showing error --->> "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /test/test.html on the server"

You have to add "FollowSymLinks" in the Options directive, either for the DocumentRoot, or for the specific directory if you don't want to allow symlinks for the whole server

It is my configuration . Please suggest me .

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.50:80>
ServerAdmin root@helo.mylinux.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ServerName helo.mylinux.com
ErrorLog logs/helo.mylinux.com-error_log-lin
CustomLog logs/helo.mylinux.com-access_log-lin common
<Directory "/var/www/html/test">
options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

** I have tested also " options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks " ,, but no result .

What is the output of
If you're running a distro using SELinux, make sure it's not a SELinux permissions problem.
Check also apache error_log to see if you find any hints.

I had disabled SELINUX .
Output of "ls -l /var/www/html/test" is showing the included files listing and softlink in the test folder .

Error log is showing :->>
Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/test/test.html, referer: http://192.168.1.50/test/

I told you to show us the directory listing to see the file attributes. And you didn't post the apache error_log.

I had recreated the folder and files and provided the permission .

[root@helo ~]# ls -l /var/www/html
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2009-04-01 17:42 test

[root@helo ~]# ls -l /var/www/html/test/
total 4
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2009-04-01 17:42 home.html
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-04-01 17:42 test.html -> home.html

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[Wed Apr 01 17:26:48 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.50] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/test/test.html, referer: http://192.168.1.50/test/
[Wed Apr 01 17:46:13 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.50] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/test/test.html, referer: http://192.168.1.50/test/
[Wed Apr 01 17:46:14 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.50] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/test/test.html, referer: http://192.168.1.50/test/
[Wed Apr 01 17:46:31 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.50] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/test/test.html, referer: http://192.168.1.50/test/
[Wed Apr 01 17:46:31 2009] [error] [client 192.168.1.50] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/test/test.html, referer: http://192.168.1.50/test/

I guess you have restarted apache after changing httpd.conf.
Try to use +FollowSymLinks and see if it helps

I used " options +FollowSymLinks " ,,,, but not worked . Is it right syntax that i used . Please suggest .

The syntax is right, that's why it's strange that apache does not follow symlinks.
I'm staring to think that you are not editing the correct file. Is that <VirtualHost ...> snippet you've posted part of httpd.conf, or it's in another file included by an "Include ..." directive in httpd.conf?

I m editing /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and its Fedora core . There everything is OK , except the symbolic link .

Your config:

Probably, SymLinksifOwnerMatch is overriding FollowSymLinks. The symlinked directory is owned by root, so the owner does not match and linking is denied.

Try removing SymLinksifOwnerMatch from your config and restart Apache.

Scratch that, after re-reading I see you already tried it.

In your config you have your DocumentRoot set to /var/www/html, but your do not have a "Directory" configuration for that directory.

If you want the DocumentRoot to be /var/www/html/test then set:

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/test

Alternately, if you want /test to be a browseable subdirectory, change the "Directory" configuration to:

<Directory "/var/www/html">

However you do it, you should have a "Directory" config that matches your DocumentRoot.

Actually I want the document root path would be /var/www/html . But there would be one folder where I want to use for soft link purpose , that's why I used <Directory "/var/www/html/test"> . Here I m able to browse other files except symbolic linking files .

Then you should have something like...