I'm having 403 forbidden using symlink, I tried every solutions I found on google.
Turned off selinux Add followsymlink on httpd.conf and also AllowOverride all chmod every files and folder add my user to the group apache.
I also don't forget restarting the apache every changes made. What should I do? This is frustrating. When I was on mint, just make a symlink... and you're good to go.
Your apache user doesn’t have permission to read the folder. Change permissions. Also, your server logs will tell you this in no uncertain terms. You can find logs in /var/log/httpd/.
Update: Based on the error code you provided in your latest comment, you could try adding an Alias in your Apache configuration instead of a symlink.
Log gives me "AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible"
How do I change permission or I mean I tried 777 775 755, chown apache:apache but still the same.
You have to check if the user apache can read the all path not just the destination path.
example: the symbolic link points to /opt/example
the user apache must have access to /opt and /opt/example
For security reasons (defense against an attack called directory traversal) symlinks should not be allowed in any web server. It looks like apache is behaving correctly here. Don't use symlinks, they are way too hard to get right.
Asked: 2016-03-26 06:25:01 -0500
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You shouldn’t disable SELinux just because you don’t understand it. It will do you well to spend 40 minutes to learn about it.
I only disabled to see if that causes it.
Please share your apache configs, we're just guessing otherwise.
http://www.hastebin.com/alanavaxer.ap...
The latest edition of the Linux Bible book has a section on SELinux that I feel is very good about learning it.