[PATCH] files: Tell Apache to let clients follow symlinks

[Mike McLean]

On 05/15/2015 11:57 AM, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 11:48 -0400, Mike McLean wrote:
>> FollowSymLinks is the default in apache 2.4, so unnecessary there.
>> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#options
>>
>> For the folks still on 2.2 (which is probably a lot given that rhel6 has
>> 2.2), I think setting either should be fine.
>>
>> This is just the default config, so users can adjust it as needed.
>
> I sent this patch because I've been bitten by it 3 times now, everytime
> spending some time trying to figure out what was going on.
>
> So I just thought I'd save others the trouble (and myself, if I ever
> deploy a new Koji :P), by adding it to the default config file.
>
> However, if FollowSymlinks is the default in 2.4, then that makes it
> much less needed, true.
>
> Maybe something along the lines of what's in the default config file for
> the Allow/Deny stuff, with a comment explaining that line must be
> uncommented on Apache < 2.4 ?

Yeah, I was about to do that, but setting the option is harmless on 2.4, 
plus I'm not 100% sure just how default it really is (experiments on my 
laptop suggest I may be missing something).

I did add an extra comment for folks with odd /mnt/koji ownership.