Thursday, 11 December 2008

Symbolic link not allowed

I got the following nasty exception in my /var/log/apache2/error_log,
and it took me too long to figure out how to fix it:

Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /opt/gforge5/plugins/scmbzr

Where in my case /opt/gforge5/plugins/scmbzr is a symlink to somewhere else.
I checked and rechecked all my permissions, but nothing worked.

So eventually it turns out that for every directory in the path where you have symlinks, you need something like:

<directory>
    Options FollowSymLinks
</directory>

(because I have a symlink in plugins called scmbzr)

Thanks a LOT to Ivan Van Laningham who mentioned this on some mailinglist:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg44430.html
Posted by Unknown at 01:42
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous16 February, 2010 21:46

    Ugh... I can't believe it was something that simple. Literally one line in one of my directives.

    Thanks a ton for your tip which got my mental gears cranking.

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  2. Anonymous11 February, 2011 04:34

    so that works for me for a file in a directory, but not for an entire directory

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  3. Jason K05 April, 2011 22:38

    Thanks for the tip......the followsymlink option was everywhere but the cgi-bin directory directive in the main httpd.conf file..

    thanks.

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  4. Anonymous22 June, 2011 12:13

    thanks a lot, it worked like charm..

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