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Server: Ubuntu 12.04 w/ LAMP I can access the default index.html, but I created a symbolic link to a folder in my Dropbox. Whenever I try to access 192.168.2.6/Joomla (Joomla is the symbolic link), I get a 403 error. Editing my httpd.conf according to this question didn't work. I can post conf files, etc, just ask.

I've tried using chmod to allow all permissions on the files in question, but that didn't help.

Also, I deleted the default index.html to force Apache to show the www directory. It shows, but is empty (Symbolic link doesn't show up)

Output from ls -lSrah (in Joomla): 

total 7.6M
-rwxrwxr-x  1 somekittens somekittens  865 Mar 31 18:03 robots.txt
-rwxrwxr-x  1 somekittens somekittens 1.3K Mar 31 18:03 index.php
-rwxrwxr-x  1 somekittens somekittens 1.7K Mar 31 18:03 web.config.txt
-rwxrwxr-x  1 somekittens somekittens 1.8K Mar 31 18:07 joomla.xml
-rwxrwxr-x  1 somekittens somekittens 3.1K Mar 31 18:03 htaccess.txt
drwxrwxr-x  2 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 tmp
drwxrwxr-x  6 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 templates
drwxrwxr-x 13 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 plugins
drwxrwxr-x 26 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 modules
drwxrwxr-x 15 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 media
drwxrwxr-x  2 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 logs
drwxrwxr-x  7 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 libraries
drwxrwxr-x  4 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 language
drwxrwxr-x 10 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 installation
drwxrwxr-x  2 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 includes
drwxrwxr-x  4 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 images
drwxrwxr-x 13 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 components
drwxrwxr-x  2 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 cli
drwxrwxr-x  2 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 cache
drwxrwxr-x 10 somekittens somekittens 4.0K Mar 31 18:03 administrator
drwxrwxr-x  5 somekittens somekittens 4.0K May 25 08:51 ..
drwxrwxr-x 17 somekittens somekittens 4.0K May 25 08:53 .
-rwxrwxr-x  1 somekittens somekittens 4.2K Mar 31 18:03 README.txt
-rwxrwxr-x  1 somekittens somekittens  18K Mar 31 18:03 LICENSE.txt
-rwxrwxr-x  1 somekittens somekittens 7.5M Mar 31 18:18 Joomla_2.5.4-Stable-Full_Package.zip

Output from ls -lSrah (in /var/www/): 

somekittens@KittensTest:/var/www$ ls -lSrah
total 7.5M
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   41 May 25 09:39 Joomla -> /home/somekittens/Dropbox/Project/Joomla/
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4.0K May 24 20:50 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K May 25 10:08 .

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

<virtualHost indextj:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@indextj

DocumentRoot /home/somekittens/Dropbox/Project/Joomla
<Directory />
        Options +FollowSymLinks -SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
        AllowOverride All
</Directory>

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  • can you go to to the Joomla folder and give me the output from `ls -lSrah` also , go to /var and do the same, i want to see the file permissions and owner for /var/www, also the log files can be helpful, if you are using apache2 you can find them at /var/log/apache2/error.log by default, reproduce the error and use grep to pipe the error.log output to get the recent errors. – murgi May 25 '12 at 14:07
  • Done! The logs give me `Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/Joomla` – SomeKittens May 25 '12 at 14:18

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Your server is set to not follow symlinks. Add this line:

Options +FollowSymLinks -SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

to your http.conf. For more info: http://www.hackersgarage.com/symbolic-link-not-allowed-or-link-target-not-accessible.html

You will also need to add browse access for others to each folder, all the way up to /home/somekittens/Dropbox/Project/Joomla/. i.e.

sudo chmod o+x /home
sudo chmod o+x /home/somekittens
chmod o+x /home/somekittens/Dropbox
chmod o+x /home/somekittens/Dropbox/Project
chmod o+x /home/somekittens/Dropbox/Project/Joomla
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  • I don't have the /etc/httpd directory. I edited it in /etc/apache2, but that didn't change anything. – SomeKittens May 25 '12 at 14:46
  • Did you restart Apache? I forgot to mention, you have to do that too. – reverendj1 May 25 '12 at 15:00
  • Rebooted, no dice. – SomeKittens May 25 '12 at 15:10
  • Where in the config did you put it? Try putting just `Options FollowSymLinks` in your Directory stanza. Also, if you are symlinking the directory root, why not just point it at the right place, instead of symlinking? – reverendj1 May 25 '12 at 15:31
  • I've added my `conf` to the question. I don't understand the second half of your comment. I thought pointing was symlinking? – SomeKittens May 25 '12 at 15:45
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    This part: `DocumentRoot /var/www`. Why not just use `DocumentRoot /home/somekittens/Dropbox/Project/Joomla/` instead of symlinking to it? Also, I believe the second Directory stanza is incorrect. That would point `http://mysite/var/www` to `/var/www` on the local file system. – reverendj1 May 25 '12 at 15:52
  • Updated Question with new httpd.conf – SomeKittens May 25 '12 at 16:05
  • let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3552/discussion-between-reverendj1-and-somekittens) – reverendj1 May 25 '12 at 16:10
  • What if I don't have the `/etc/httpd/` folder on my system? – Aaron Franke Nov 09 '19 at 03:33
  • I found that you need both the read and the execute permissions to be set. – Flimm Jul 15 '20 at 07:36