making direcories and symbolic links in apache web directory

20 Feb 2009 [ apache linux ]

This made me worried for the past two days. Thanks to IRC I got the solution.

Add these lines at the end of your default-server.conf file for apache. On opensuse it is in /etc/apache2/defualt-server.conf

<Directory “path to directory like /srv/www/htdocs/download”>

options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews

AllowOverride All

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

Then restart apache.

This makes the directory visible from web browser and makes apache follow symbolic links !

This was really painful yet the answer was so simple.

I need to look in apache configurations properly.