Re: AW: why symbolic link arnt visible?

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2023, Maurizio Caloro wrote:

> Thanks for you answer
>
> > I'm guessing what you mean by "will not appear": the web server doesn't show it.
> Yes the Webserver Apache will not present the symbolic link folder
>
> > My first hunch would be that the web server can't read (or list) any of the components of the file pointed to by the symlink.
> Yes, in the meantime I am also of the opinion, but how can I change this, because the folder structure is given
> and I cannot make a right change here. Or should I make a copy of the data at the end of the process?
>
> > Could you do ls -l to /var/lib/rancid, /var/lib/rancid/routers and so on until .../c3560?
> Every file in this path "-R rancid:randic /var/lib/rancid"
>
> > Besides: what does Apache's error log say (best just after you tried to access the resource in question).
> AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/cvsweb/configs
There's your error

> /var/www/html/cvsweb# ls -la
> drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data  4096 Apr 27 21:21 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data  4096 Apr 27 21:27 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data    32 Apr 27 20:49 configs -> /var/lib/rancid/routers/configs/
It"s the target of the link that has a permission problem, not the
source.

/var/lib/rancid/...