Apache permissions doing... nothing?

wrbob · 07-31-2005, 02:43 PM

What would normally be a simple setup of apache has turned into something far from that (at least for me). Hopefully someone can point out my mistake.

Firstly I've decided not to use .htaccess files. Which I normally use... so my problem is most likely in my conf i guess.

Anyways. Apache refuses to index my symlinks and if i follow the symlinks explicitly I get a 403 error. My error log states that symlinks aren't allowed and just says more stuff about permission denied.

my home directory is /var/www/html/ with a symlink:

v23 -> /home/v23/public_html/

I've recursively set my permissions to the v23 folder at 755 for good measure as well.

So again:
1. symlinks not being shown in the root index
2. forbidden error when following a symlink. (I'm sure relate to above)

Here is my relavent conf:

Quote:

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

<Directory />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/html>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir public_html
</IfModule>

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
Options MultiViews Indexes FollowSymLinks IncludesNoExec
AllowOverride None
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Limit>
<LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</LimitExcept>
</Directory>

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.html.var

d00msdaypr0phet · 08-01-2005, 08:30 AM

Is V23 an actual user? If it is you should't need the symlink. Also its probably becuse the owner:group of the v23 dir is not apache so you caould try to add the v23 user to the apache group or chown the v23 dir to the owner:group of apache then try the symlink if you need to.

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wrbob · 08-01-2005, 02:10 PM

yea v23 is an actual user. but i can't access the directory www.domain.com/~v23/ - i get a 403 forbidden error although i have permissions set to 755 for the v23/public_html directory. i've also chowned the directory to apache with and given group access to v23 to no avail.

after fooling around i've found i can sym link directories within the root html directory. no surprise there really. just shows the followsymlinks directive is ok (?). so it must be a permissions issue with hopping out of the /var/www/html directory to v23's public_html directory i guess?

normally i'd say this should be np but i just can't seem to nail down my mistake.

thanks.

d00msdaypr0phet · 08-01-2005, 02:24 PM

205 # UserDir is now a module
206 #UserDir public_html
207 #UserDir disabled root
208
209 #<Directory /home/*/public_html>
210 # AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
211 # Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
212 #</Directory>
213

d00msdaypr0phet · 08-01-2005, 02:25 PM

damn it....I wasn't done
This may sound stupid but do you have the public_html dir created buy the user in the users ~?

gwh · 08-22-2005, 08:46 AM

If the sym-link is owned by root, you will get a 403.

I just discovered this and was googling looking for known bugs.

--gh