Link file not opening on webserver

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Paul Ward wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to link a file from from my home directory to
> /var/www/html so it can be a acccessed remotley.
> 
> I used the following to link the file which worked fine.
> 
> # ln -s myfile /var/www/html/
> # ls -l /var/www/html
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 May 13.19 myfile.html -> /home/user/myfile.html
> 
> When going to my webserver http://myfile.html does not open up I get a
> permisson problem how do I get round this?

The user that apache web server runs as (usually 'apache') should have 
permissions to read /home/user/myfile.html.
Just giving read access, ie. chmod 644 myfile.html won't work in this 
case. You will have to give execute permission to /home/user as it as 
home folders usually have permissions set as 700. It would be easier if 
you placed myfile.html somewhere outside /home and then set the 
appropriate permissions.

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Regards
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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