Cannot download files from my page

[proggybilly]

I am setting up a page to download files that clients can access. My page is located in /srv/

http://www/htdocs/mysite.

I have a subdirectory under / called downloads. I have a symbolic link to that subdirectory in srv/

http://www/htdocs/mysite.

If I run cd /srv/

http://www/htdocs/mysite/download,

I see everything that is listed in the /download directory. How ever when I click on the hyperlink to download the file, the URL shows the correct path but I get an access forbidden error.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[jpadie]

i'd guess the permissions on the linked directory do not allow the php process to read from it. remember the permissions of the cli are not the same as those under which the web server runs (usually)

 

[proggybilly]

I am trying to figure it out, everything is owned by

http://wwwrun.

I even did a chmod 777 on everything... I have FollowSymLinks enabled in apache2. This is frustrating. If I move the download directory directly under /srv/

http://www/htdocs/mysite/

I can access it with no problem. Still everything owned as

http://wwwrun.users

and chmod 775.

Wierd how it won't follow the symbolic link even though it is set up to do so.

 

[proggybilly]

Problem fixed! Had to put followsymlinks as an option in the site.conf file