Link file not opening on webserver

[Les Mikesell]

Paul Ward wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to link a file from from my home directory to
> /var/www/html so it can be a acccessed remotley.
> 
> I used the following to link the file which worked fine.
> 
> # ln -s myfile /var/www/html/
> # ls -l /var/www/html
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 May 13.19 myfile.html -> /home/user/myfile.html
> 
> When going to my webserver http://myfile.html does not open up I get a
> permisson problem how do I get round this?
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> Forbidden
> 
> You don't have permission to access myfile.html on this server
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> 
> I did a lsattri but this did not show anything unusual and SELinux is off.

Apache has an option to follow symlinks or not.  Be sure it is on in 
your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf at least for the relevant area.  As an 
alternative, if you have the userdir option enabled you can create a 
directory named public_html in your home directory and refer to files 
there as ~user/filename.  In any case the path to the file must have at 
x permission for the apache user or group and the file itself must be 
readable by the apache user or group.

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   Les Mikesell
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