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I've checked out the best answer to this question and can't get it to work. Using Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache 2.4.7 I am trying to load localhost/locals/hcl/index.html in order to verify that it works correctly through a server. Where

/var/www/html/locals -> /media/userid/WWW/www/upload

and /media/userid/WWW/www/upload/hcl/index.html exists. I have changed /etc/apache2/apache2.conf to (following is copied from webmin output for the default server): 

<Directory /var/www/html>
 Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
 AllowOverride None
 Require all granted
</Directory>

as recommended in Apache won't follow symlinks (403 Forbidden) and all directories and files in the path have rwx set and /media/userid/WWW/www/upload has owner set to www-data, which used to be important. My /var/www/html directory contains another symbolic link:

phpsysinfo -> /usr/share/phpsysinfo

that does work, and

file:///media/userid/WWW/www/upload/hcl/index.html

works as expected in Firefox. Obviously, I have omitted some crucial step, but I cannot see what it is: can anyone advise ?

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  • Does `file:///var/www/html/locals/hcl/index.html` work in forefox? is there anything in apache error_log? – Dusan Bajic Jul 19 '16 at 10:59
  • Dusan... yes, yes: `AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/locals` ... basically confirms error 403 returned to browser. Thanks for interest. – hamiljf Jul 19 '16 at 21:13

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