Hi,

I'm configuring my development environment with a basic Apache HTTPd configuration.

But, to avoid a often problem, I want to map my test URL to my development folder.

I'm using Ubuntu.

My development path is located under the following example path:

/home/myusername/myworkspace/hptargetpath/src/pages

Considering the following symbolic link mapping:

#ls -l /opt/share/www/mydevelopmentrootpath:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 77 2011-02-13 18:53 /opt/share/www/mydevelopmentrootpath -> /home/myusername/myworkspace/hptargetpath/src/pages

With this folder mapping, I configured Apache HTTPd with the following configuration:

<VirtualHost *:*>
        ServerName local.server.com
        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        DirectoryIndex index.html

        DocumentRoot /opt/share/www/mydevelopmentrootpath

        <Directory /opt/share/www/mydevelopmentrootpath/ >
                Options +Indexes
                Options +FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

But, I'm receiving a 403 Forbidden error when I want to access index.html under the address http://local.server.com/index.html.

403 Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /index.html on this server.

On httpd debug log, I checked the following message:

[Sun Feb 13 19:34:47 2011] [error] [client 127.0.1.1] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /opt/share/www/mydevelopmentrootpath

I'm thinking that this problem is been generated by some path permission. It's not a direct permission to directory, but some intermediate directory in the path.

There's a directive on httpd core Options:

SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
The server will only follow symbolic links for which the target file or directory is owned by the same user id as the link.

But, I tested it without effects.

Somebody may help me? I think that it's a trivial configuration on development environment.

Best regards,

And Past