sysctl or system tweak for symbolic links?

Jan Grant Jan.Grant at bristol.ac.uk
Sat Sep 10 06:15:17 PDT 2005


On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Using FreeBSD_6.0_Beta4 (applies to Beta2, also).
> 
> I'm trying to track down a problem I've been having with apache-2.0.54 not
> following symbolic links.
> 
> It's basically come down to my being able to follow the link if it's in the
> same directory structure (ie: .. or /path/to/..), but fails if the symbolic
> link is located elsewhere (ie: /usr/local/path/directory) or on another disk.
> 
> I wonder if there's a sysctl or other system variable that handles the
> behavior of or access to symbolic links in this fashion that I may have
> missed.   Seemed like a reasonable conclusion after these tests have been
> failing, though it could be something else, too.

Stock apache configuration. Look at the documentation for the "Options" 
directive, particularly "SymLinksIfOwnerMatch".


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