Directory index forbidden by rule

[mamboman]

hi,
I am having problems accessing a directory using a symlink.

1. I have installed squirrelmail
2. I have created a symlink as follows ln -s /usr/share/squirrelmail /usr/files/websites/mambotech/webmail
3. I have chown and chgrp on all of the files and dir's to the usr of apache
4. When I go to the open the link I get Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /webmail/ on this server.
5. I check the error.log and find Directory index forbidden by rule : /usr/files/websites/mambotech/webmail

Please can anyone help me resolve this I have been working on it for a week now .....

Thanks Mark %-)

 

[RhythmAce]

Apache is still thinking that your link is outside its webspace. You will need to define a directory container for it. Rather than use a symlink, I use Alias:

Alias /webmail/ "/usr/share/squirrelmail/"

<Directory &quot;/usr/share/squirrelmail&quot;>

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

</Directory>

Now apache is happy and you can use /webmail as the path or

http://www.yourdomain.com/webmail

as the URL.

 

[mamboman]

Hi, RhythmAce

Thanks for that it worked fine....well I got the logon page, now I am having problem logging in. I returns page cannot be displayed when trying to access /webmail/src/redirect.php ? have you had this problem at all


Thanks Mark