Hi, At the start of last week, the old webserver went belly up. I've now installed a new server, copied over the httpd.conf file and changed the bits I need to change, but there is now a problem It won't follow symlinks! On the old system (self compiled version of httpd, 2.0.48), I would have a symlink in /var/www/html/reelnorth pointing to /web/reelnorth and httpd would follow the symlink and all was happy. Now it won't allow me to use symlinks at all. I have in the config file the following #Listen Listen 146.87.55.6:80 Listen 146.87.55.6:81 Listen 146.87.55.6:8060 # DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your # documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but # symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations. # DocumentRoot "/var/www/html" # # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to. # <Directory "/var/www/html"> # # Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All", # or any combination of: # Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews # # Note that "MultiViews" must be named *explicitly* --- "Options All" # doesn't give it to you. # # The Options directive is both complicated and important. Please see # http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options # for more information. # Options FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI Multiviews XBitHack On # # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files. # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords: # Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit # AllowOverride None # # Controls who can get stuff from this server. # Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> # Filters allow you to process content before it is sent to the client. # # To parse .shtml files for server-side includes (SSI): # (You will also need to add "Includes" to the "Options" directive.) # AddType text/html .shtml AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml # # Use name-based virtual hosting. # NameVirtualHost 146.87.55.6:80 <VirtualHost 146.87.55.6:80> ServerAdmin p.f.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx DocumentRoot /var/www/html/reel_north ServerName www.reelnorth.co.uk ErrorLog logs/reelnorth-error_log CustomLog logs/reelnorth-custom_log common </VirtualHost> This should do the lot. A symlink in /var/www/html pointing to /web and all is well. If you point your browsers to http://www.reelnorth.co.uk you'll see the problem. Nothing which is linked by a symlink works, including the server side includes. Has something big changed in httpd? I need to get the server up and running ASAP, so any help would be appreciated. TTFN Paul -- "I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram with a Cilla Black fan on the bike" - Meatloaf
