Re: [cobalt-users] Using symbolic links in DocumentRoot directive

[guyver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I could be wrong (see the FAQ's on http://www.apache.org) but I'm
virtually certain you can't.

Apache wants the REAL path. I'm not quite sure why it's so fussy, but it's
probably a security thing. After all symlinks can change to other
locations with or without root etc so maybe it's designed to stop that
from happening.

--Neil

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, manitu wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> there was some posts on the topic "How do I have a second domain pointing to
> an existing account(virtual site)". Most replies stated to add a VirtualHost
> directive into an separate file included in the httpd.conf file. This works
> fine for me except for the following.
> 
> Here's one of my directives I have added:
> 
>         <VirtualHost ip.number.here>
>         ServerName www.seconddomain.com
>         DocumentRoot /home/sites/www.firstdomain.com/web
>         </VirtualHost>
> 
> The problem is that the DocumentRoot directive does not work when using
> http://www.firstdomain.com, only when using the site number, e.g.
> DocumentRoot /home/sites/siteX/web. The www.firstdomain.com is a symbolic
> link generated by the Cobalt UI and works fine, e.g. via telnet.
> 
> I have tried multiple things without any success. For instance I have tried
> to add a "Options +FollowSymLinks" directive, no result.
> 
> When trying to access the www.seconddomain.com I always get an "403 Access
> forbidden" error via http.
> 
> Does anybody know how to tell Apache to accept symbolic links here ?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated, and I could imagine that there are others on
> the list that also are.
> 
> Manuel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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