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l008com · Mar 16, 2002, 10:03 PM

I know that Apache doesn't work with Finder made aliases. But I made an alias in the terminal, like so...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>ln -s /path/to/originalfolder /path/to/alias</font>[/code]
No Go. Can't figure it out for the life of me. I get a 403 every time. I check all the permissions, everything has read access. I still get this error. The alias works fine in the Finder. But Apache gets a 403 with it. The really pain in the ass part is that I had it working for the longest time no problem, then I decided to move all my music from the root level to my Home's Music folder. I got a 403 with a link to that folder, so I put the music back and get a 403 when I try to re-link it again. GRRRR

taffy · Mar 16, 2002, 10:09 PM

your terminal-made-alias is a 'symbolic link' . a differnt thing from alias really. symbolic links can get broken where as a alias won't be even if you move the original file around.

the reason why you're getting the 403 is because you need to enable symbolic links in your apache configuration. now if you're comfortable with editing httpd.conf then add "FollowSymLinks" in the directory section

-ck

l008com · Mar 16, 2002, 10:12 PM

I'm miles ahead of you...... I've had that attribute for a long time, still no-go.

taffy · Mar 16, 2002, 10:23 PM

heh gimme a shell access and i'll fix it

l008com · Mar 16, 2002, 10:33 PM

Huh?

taffy · Mar 16, 2002, 10:35 PM

[ 03-16-2002: Message edited by: taffy ]

l008com · Mar 16, 2002, 10:44 PM

Well I'm definitely not going to give you an account, nothing personal, but exactly the opposite really. But what is ssh, and what are you talking about?

taffy · Mar 16, 2002, 10:49 PM

okee i just booted into osxserver so i might still be able to help you

in your httpd.conf, make sure the following is in there:

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

i don't know what else is configured incorrectly if that doesn't work..

fyi: ssh is secure shell.. sort of like telnet except it's secure.. it's for when you wanna log in to a system remotely, and act as if you're a user logged on thru terminal.. really useful

hope you figure out your problem

-ck

l008com · Mar 16, 2002, 11:03 PM

yeah followsymlnks is already there, thats what i tried to tell you in my previous post.

l008com · Mar 17, 2002, 01:15 AM

OK it works now. I didn't touch anything, I haven't made any changes since I started this post. I just happened to click on the link a minute ago and now it works. VERY strange.