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Subject: [users@httpd] Apache-Symbolic Link NOT Allowed ????

Here is the snippet of my HTTPD.CONF file:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache/htdocs"

<Directory />
   Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
   AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory /home/hari>
   Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>


<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">
   Options +FollowSymLinks MultiViews
   AllowOverride All
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>

UserDir public_html

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
   AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
   Options +FollowSymLinks +Indexes
   <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
   </Limit>
   <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
       Order deny,allow
       Deny from all
   </LimitExcept>
</Directory>


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I have a UNIX SYSTEM USER 'hari' whose HOME dir is /home/hari.
I have also CREATED SYMBOLIC LINK of /home/hari in 
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/hari

What I need is that when I type www.hostname.com/hari/index.html, it should 
DISPLAY page from /home/hari/public_html/index.html


When I do this I get following message:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /hari/index.html on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an 
ErrorDocument to handle the request.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

My ERROR_LOG file shows following:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Wed Mar  5 14:38:33 2003] [notice] Accept mutex: pthread (Default: pthread)
[Wed Mar  5 14:38:42 2003] [error] Symbolic link not allowed: 
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/hari/
[Wed Mar  5 14:38:42 2003] [error] File does not exist: 
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/error_doc.html
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I tried adding Alias /hari /home/hari/public_html but still NOT working!!!!

Later I tried following (ls command for file, and sym link)

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root#ls -ld /home/hari/public_html /home/hari 
/usr/local/apache2003/htdocs/hari
drwxr-xr-x   4 hari     staff           512 Aug 20 2002  /home/hari
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     system          512 Mar 05 11:50 
/home/hari/public_html
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     system           25 Mar 05 13:34 
/usr/local/apache2003/htdocs/hari -> /home/hari/public_html
root#
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

As seen above, home/hari is (home) directory owned by user 'hari' and group 
'staff'. I guess that could be one of the reasone it is NOT working...but I 
cannot change the owner of directory /home/kithany to ROOT becos it is owned 
by USER hari.

Any information on this is appreciated.


Any suggestions is welcome.

THANKS!

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