Curious symlink problem with Apache -- FC12

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 02:13:28 UTC 2010


On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> I have a very simple setup.  This is to create a simple repo.
>
> In /var/..../repo/html there are three files:
>
> # ls -ls
> total 8
> 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 2010-11-02 13:42 Centos-5.5 ->
> /media/d4ae05a3-c60f-489d-8159-e16c9a271f0b/repos/centos/5.5
> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2010-11-02 11:05 FC12 ->
> /var/hda/files/repo/fedora/FC12
> 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99 2010-11-02 13:43 index.html
>
> index.html has in it:
>
> <html>
> <UL>
> <LI><A HREF="FC12">Fedora 12</A>
> <LI><A HREF="Centos-5.5">Centos 5.5</A>
> </UL>
> </html>
>
> The link to FC12 works.  The link ot Centos-5.5 gets a 403 failure:
>
> You don't have permission to access /Centos-5.5 on this server.
>
> The permissions look the same, so why the failure?  And looking into
> these two symlinks:
>
> # ls -ls FC12/
> total 8
> 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-11-21 19:35 os
> 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-11-22 21:25 updates
>
> # ls -ls Centos-5.5/
> total 4
> 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-02 14:04 os
>
> So what is wrong with the Centos-5.5 symlink?

And "ls -lsd ..." for the two directories above?


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