Subject: Re: SSI/server-side includes and symbolic links/SymlinkIfOwnerMatch
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.apache.user
Date: 2008-10-04 16:58:32 GMT (13 weeks, 3 days, 4 hours and 47 minutes ago)
Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > >> If you are not using RewriteRules then in .htaccess write >> >> Options -FollowSymLinks >> >> This will disable the working of RewriteRules also! >> >> If you are using RewriteRules, create a symlink and using FilesMatch >> specify the above option for the symlink name. > > My objective is to have SymlinkIfOwnerMatch apply; I actually did try > putting -FollowSymLinks in a top level <Directory /> config, but the SSI > include *still* followed the symlink. > > My question is whether or not it is expected that SSI includes will ignore > the Apache symbolic link following configuration, or if it is a bug? (Or > if I'm just doing something stupid, which is always a possibility)... > Without commenting on the last part of the question, you might want to make sure that you are not getting bitten by this, as many people (including me) have been : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/sections.html (read the very last paragraph carefully) In other words, check if by any chance you do not have some <Location> section negating all your configuration snippets for that <Directory>. Example : DocumentRoot /var/www/mydocs <Directory /var/www/mydocs/mydir> some options here </Directory> ... many lines in-between ... <Location /mydir> other options here </Location> would make the options in <Location /mydir> prevail over the ones in the <Directory> section. It can be more insidious.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe <at> httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe <at> httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help <at> httpd.apache.org