Curious symlink problem with Apache -- FC12

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Nov 3 15:31:09 UTC 2010


Well this is not going well...

On 11/03/2010 10:15 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> James Mckenzie wrote:
>    
>> Robert Moskowitz<rgm at htt-consult.com>  wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> # ls -lsZ
>>> total 8
>>> lrwxrwxrwx root root ?                                Centos-5.5 ->
>>> /media/d4ae05a3-c60f-489d-8159-e16c9a271f0b/repos/centos/5.5
>>> lrwxrwxrwx root root ?                                FC12 ->
>>> /var/hda/files/repo/fedora/FC12
>>> -rw-r--r-- root root ?                                index.html
>>>
>>> selinux is disabled...
>>>
>>>        
>> What are the permissions on the original directories?  The symlink should pick them up and use them.
>>
>> The previous comment about Apache following symlinks would apply if BOTH directories were unavailable.
>>      
> Also check the permission of the entire path.
> For example, what about the permission of /media/d4ae05a3-c60f-489d-8159-e16c9a271f0b?
>
> Try this,as root:
>
> cd /
> su apache
>    

# cd /
[root at homebase /]# su apache
This account is currently not available.

Huh? So I checked:

# grep apache /etc/passwd
apache:x:48:100:Apache:/var/www:/sbin/nologin



> cd /media
> cd d4ae05a3-c60f-489d-8159-e16c9a271f0b
> cd repos
> cd centos
> cd 5.5
> ls -l
>
> Maybe one of this steps fails when you are user apache.
>
>    


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