RE: [PHP] Symbolic link fails when User Authentication comes in
| From: | johnny p. | Date: | Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:54:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Symbolic link fails when User Authentication comes in | ||
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Add the FollowSymLinks to your httpd.conf file for that directory. I
don't recommend doing this, tho, since it *is* a security hole.
<Directory /apps/apache/docs/test1>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</Directory>
johnny p.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: david klein [mailto:davidklein101@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 1:43 PM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] Symbolic link fails when User Authentication comes in
>
>
> I am using Apache user authentication, and it works fine.
> However, if there
> is a symbolic link inside a securied directory, the symbolic
> linked file
> will deny any access.
>
> For example, directory "/apps/apache/docs/test1" is a
> securied directory,
> and there is a symbolic linked file "file1.txt", after you
> logged into
> directory "/apps/apache/docs/test1" and try to access
> "file1.txt", you will
> be denied for the access?
>
> Does anyone have any idea?
>
> Thanks,
> David
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