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?
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Forbidden
You don't have permission to access myfile.html on this server
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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
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
