[Ids-devel] Symlink Album's not showing up

[Ashley M. K. <as...@pc...>]

Before I rip code to shreds, there are a few things I want to figure out.  For
Apache to handle symlinks, you need to tell it to FollowSymLinks in the config
file.  Has anyone tried and see if this is set in the config file?  Does Apache
actually have the proper permissions to read the symlink itself?  Usually when
you symlink from one location to another, it tends to have your permissions, as
opposed to the apache's process.  This may cause trouble:

drwxr-xr-x apache apache  albums/album1
lrwxrwxrwx root   root    albums/album2 -> /storage/album2

Even if the stuff under /storage/album2 is owned apache.apache, it may still
cause trouble not being able to read the symlink.  This is an untested theory of
course, but it would be interedting to see if that's really the case or not.

Also, it could very well be something within apache2 that's cause the problem. 
I run symlinks under apache 1.3.x and have no problems at all.  I have no
intention of going to apache2 anytime in the near future due to it's current
state, and the fact that PHP can not work with it (yes, I'm ont of those.)

I look forward to hearing some comments, or test results.

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