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us Ask Ubuntu Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users apache symbolic link 403 and developers. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top How to apache symbolic link forbidden configure apache2 with symbolic links in /var/www/? up vote 7 down vote favorite 3 I want to setup a local web server on my Ubuntu (14.04). So I installed all software to get a LAMP server. The problem is that I do something wrong with creating my virtualhosts. I wanted to create different subdomains on my localhost. So for example site1.localhost and site2.localhost. In my /var/www/ directory I created a symbolic link
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"site1" going to /home/user/Workspaces/site1. In my Apache error.log file I got the following error. [core:error] [pid 12679] [client 127.0.0.1:59006] AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/site1 In my apache configuration I have:
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by toyinal, Sep 17, 2013. toyinal Member HowtoForge Supporter After installation of IPSConfig 3 on a dedicated server running CentOS 6.4, I get this error when https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/symbolic-link-not-allowed-or-link-target-not-accessible-var-www-ispconfig.63258/ I access https://mydomain.com:8080 Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this http://www.hackersgarage.com/symbolic-link-not-allowed-or-link-target-not-accessible.html server. the apache error log is listed below: [Tue Sep 17 11:02:00 2013] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) [Tue Sep 17 11:02:00 2013] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache] [Tue Sep 17 11:02:00 2013] [warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?) symbolic link [Tue Sep 17 11:02:00 2013] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Tue Sep 17 11:02:00 2013] [notice] Digest: done [Tue Sep 17 11:02:00 2013] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 1024 max processes and 0 max threads. [Tue Sep 17 11:02:00 2013] [notice] mod_python: using mutex_directory /tmp [Tue Sep 17 11:02:00 2013] [warn] RSA server certificate is a CA certificate apache symbolic link (BasicConstraints: CA == TRUE !?) [Tue Sep 17 11:02:00 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_fcgid/2.3.7 PHP/5.5.3 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.6.6 mod_ruby/1.3.0 Ruby/1.8.7(2011-06-30) mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/1.0.0-fips configured -- resuming normal operations [Tue Sep 17 11:07:47 2013] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/ispconfig [Tue Sep 17 11:07:48 2013] [error] [client x.x.x.x] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/ispconfig Thanks toyinal, Sep 17, 2013 #1 till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer - Which Tutorial did you use to prepare your server for the installation of ispconfig? - Is /var/www a folder or a symbolic link? - Please post the ouput of: ls -la /var/www and ls -la /usr/local/ispconfig/interface/ till, Sep 17, 2013 #2 toyinal Member HowtoForge Supporter ls -la /var/www drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Sep 16 12:22 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Sep 17 00:30 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 ispapps ispapps 4096 Sep 16 12:18 apps drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 19:30 cgi-bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 13 15:37 error drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Sep 13 19:32 html drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 16 00:35 icons lrw
Bulk Email PowerMTA Support Home › Linux › Troubleshootings symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible by Syed Alam in Linux, Troubleshootings Today I was migrating CPanel account to another server using a WHM/Cpanel Utility /scripts/pkgaccount. Package was successfully migrated to a new server and domain was live again on new server. But several functionality of the site was not working and the following error was appearing in apache error log constantly. symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible There are two possibility of this error: Your apache configuration doesn't allow to Follow Sym Links. Your SymLink owner doesn't match (This usually happens on WHM/CPanel because CPanel uses unique user for unique domain) Fix “symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible” on WHM/CPanel Server : Connect to your WHM/CPanel with root privileges from browser e.g http://example.com:2086 Go To Main >> Service Configuration >> Apache Configuration >> Global Configuration Check FollowSymLink FollowSymLinks Now, in our example your domain name is hackersgarage.com and your CPanel user is hacker. Simple change ownership of your symlink files to hacker Jumple to document root of your domain cd /home/hacker/public_html/ Change ownership chown hacker:hacker * If you are still having difficulties or unable to change ownership of files or its just not working. You can again Go To; Main >> Service Configuration >> Apache Configuration >> Global Configuration Uncheck SymLinksIfOwnerMatch SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Save it! It should rebuild Apache configuration and reload httpd daemon. Fix “symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible” on With Control Panel Server (CentOS/Ubuntu/RedHat): vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf Add Options +FollowSymLinks -SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Reload httpd /etc/init.d/httpd reload on debian base distro; /etc/init.d/apache gracefull If you don't have access to httpd.conf, you can add this in your .htaccess of your document root. vim .htaccess Options +FollowSymLinks -SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Save it! Here you don't need to reload httpd daemon. Note : Using .htaccess method you need to make sure, your httpd.conf is configured/instructed to