Re: dhelp problem [SOLVED!]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeronimo Pellegrini" <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>
To: "Lehel Bernadt" <blehel@kabelkon.ro>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: dhelp problem [SOLVED!]
> So, all I had to do was to change
>
> Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/
>
> to
>
> Alias /doc/ /usr/share/doc/
>
> (Although I feel like I shouldn't need to do that - and that apache
> should be able to follow the link...)
>
This is turned off by default, because following symlinks can be a security
risk. E.g. a user could put a symlink in his homedir, and then he could
access files through apache which he could not read otherwise.
Jens
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