Apache won't follow Symlink
- by Marvin Dickhaus
I have a LAMP server (Ubuntu 12.10) setup on my development machine. It is a T60 modified with an SSD.
The server base is in /var/www. Apache has the following config:
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
I'm currently developing a SilverStripe CMS featured site. The folder for the server is /var/www/sfk/. The framework and all cms relavant features are in their respective folders. The only folder that need to be modified would be the /var/www/sfk/mysite folder. Because of that I want to keep the mysite folder under my home directory and symlink it into the server folder. So here is what I've done:
ln -s ~/sfk/mysite/ /var/www/sfk/
sudo chgrp www-data /var/www/sfk/mysite -R
ls tells me the following:
/var/www/sfk (exerpt)
drwxr-xr-x 3 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 16:53 assets
drwxr-xr-x 12 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 16:53 cms
drwxr-xr-x 29 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 16:53 framework
-rw-r--r-- 1 marvin www-data 2410 Nov 16 16:53 index.php
lrwxrwxrwx 1 marvin www-data 24 Nov 20 17:45 mysite -> /home/marvin/sfk/mysite/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 marvin www-data 514 Nov 16 16:55 _ss_environment.php
drwxr-xr-x 4 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 16:53 themes
and
ls /var/www/sfk/mysite/
drwxrwxr-x 6 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 00:15 code
drwxrwxr-x 2 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 11:51 _config
-rwxrwxr-x 1 marvin www-data 2685 Nov 16 15:39 _config.php
drwxrwxr-x 2 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 00:15 css
drwxrwxr-x 2 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 00:15 images
drwxrwxr-x 2 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 00:15 javascript
drwxrwxr-x 5 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 00:15 templates
This is literally the same setup I have on my desktop machine. The problem I have is that the mysite/ folder is just not recognized. I'm thankful for every advice I get. I'm frustrated because I'm stuck with this issue for hours.
