Curious symlink problem with Apache -- FC12

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Nov 3 04:11:56 UTC 2010



On 11/02/2010 10:13 PM, Tom H wrote:
> 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?
>    

# 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

# ls -lsd
4 drwxrwxr-x 2 apache users 4096 2010-11-02 13:43 .

# ls -lsd FC12/
4 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-11-02 11:04 FC12/

# ls -lsd Centos-5.5/
4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-02 14:04 Centos-5.5/




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