RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ2 - symbolic links problem

["Drew Nichols" <drew-cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,
Check and see if perhaps the files are owned by httpd.
Regards,
Drew

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David Liu
> Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 4:08 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] RAQ2 - symbolic links problem
>
>
>
> hi all-
>
> here's the dilemma-
>
> i am trying to give a user access to publishing their website to their
> virtual domain by symbolic linking their user directory to the
> virtualdomain directory.
>
> i.e.
>
> i'm bob with a virtualdomain bobcool.com
>
> bob's user directory is located in
> "/home/sites/www.bobcool.com/users/bob/"
> bob's web directory is located in
> "/home/sites/www.bobcool.com/users/bob/web/" which means that if i go to
> "www.bobcool.com/~bob" i'll see the stuff the website.
>
> what i want is to allow bob to put his stuff in his web directory so that
> it can be accessed at "www.bobcool.com"
>
> so, i first off went to "/etc/httpd/conf/access.conf" and
> replaced the line:
>
> "Options Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Includes"
>
> with:
>
> "Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes"
>
> and restarted the server..
>
> i then did the following:
>
> "ln -s /home/sites/www.bobcool.com/users/bob/web/
> /home/sites/www.bocool.com/" from "admin" not "bob".
>
> the link was created..
>
> but when i then go back to see if the stuff at "www.bobcool.com/~bob" is
> also at "www.bobcool.com" it didn't work and i get the following error in
> the error.conf file:
>
> "Symbolic link not allowed: /home/sites/site4/web/"
>
>
> what's going on here??? how do i do this correctly?!?! thanks!
> dave
>
>
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