Bug#530535: apache2: Apache fails to follow symlinks via other symlinks

["Stefan Fritsch" <sf@sfritsch.de>]

Hi,

> It occurred to me that the problem might be related to one of the
> symlinks having a name, .w/, to which Apache normally wouldn't allow
> access, so I tested with:
>
> ln -s ../work w; ln -s w/mine/toys toys
>
> but /~eddy/toys/ was also 403.  However, /~eddy/code/ has become
> inaccessible too !  Yet, half an hour ago, I was able to access one of
> my local URLs that does indeed go via symlinks - and it's also stopped
> working now.
>
> Something is horribly confused here ...

I can't reproduce your problem. Are you sure all involved directories are
accessible for the www-data user?

Cheers,
Stefan