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Reply to topic   Topic: Unable to see symlink from other computers
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bushy



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Location: USA, Palm Harbor, Florida

PostPosted: Tue 12 May '15 20:29    Post subject: Unable to see symlink from other computers Reply with quote

FYI- I'm new to Linux and Apache.
I installed Apache2. In the the folder "var/www/html" I created a symlink to a different HDD that holds a number of movie files. My thinking is that it would be easy to access the movies through a browser from any computer on my local network.

I used the following command string while in the html directory, and created the symlink:

ln -sd /media/guy/movie1/Movies test

While sitting at the server, when I click on "test" it opens the correct directory and exposes the files. If I surf to apache from another machine it does not show the symlink.

Here the permissions on the symlinklrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 May 11 19:56 test -> /media/guy/movie1/Movies
Excerpt from Apache access log:

192.168.1.158 - - [12/May/2015:08:40:07 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 502 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.7) Gecko/20140802 Firefox/24.7 PaleMoon/24.7.1"
192.168.1.158 - - [12/May/2015:08:40:07 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 502 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.7) Gecko/20140802 Firefox/24.7 PaleMoon/24.7.1"
192.168.1.158 - - [12/May/2015:08:40:07 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 502 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.7) Gecko/20140802 Firefox/24.7 PaleMoon/24.7.1"
192.168.1.158 - - [12/May/2015:08:50:38 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 584 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.7) Gecko/20140802 Firefox/24.7 PaleMoon/24.7.1"
192.168.1.158 - - [12/May/2015:08:50:39 -0400] "GET /icons/blank.gif HTTP/1.1" 304
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James Blond
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PostPosted: Tue 19 May '15 17:45    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you enable FollowSymLinks in the Options?
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