Hi all,
I 've made a Centos4 web server and configured a site under apache.
Now I've a windows 2000 server in my lan in which I have a directory containing images that must be visualized under my site. So I've mounted with samba my win2000 dir in /mnt/winimages and I can navigate it and see everythings.
After that I come under apache and in /var/www/html/mysite I've created a symbolic link named myimages that point to /mnt/winimages: all goes ok and ls -l myimages give me the list of my images...
I've also insert this line in my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

<Directory "/var/www/html/mysite/myimages">
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None
Allow from all


Order allow,deny
</Directory>

and restart apache. When I put a direct url on my browser pointing to a pippo.jpg I receive this error on browser:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /mysite/myimages/pippo.jpg on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request

I also get this making tail -f /etc/httpd/logs/error_log

Symbolic link not allowed: /var/www/html/mysite/myimages

I also do this:

vi /etc/selinux/config
and change to
SELINUX=permissive

and restart the server...

Anyone have an idea???

Thanks all,
Regards,
Gambrinus

You should at least change the above to
in order for your "Options" directive to take effect.

I've tried your idea...

Nothing, I receive the same error Symbolic link not allowed

Thanks,
Any ideas???

Some things:
1. You can changetosince you want to follow symlinks inside the directory mysite.
2. Since it's a windows share make sure you mount it with the correct permissions.