----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeronimo Pellegrini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lehel Bernadt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 11:06 PM Subject: Re: dhelp problem [SOLVED!]
> So, all I had to do was to change > > Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/ > > to > > Alias /doc/ /usr/share/doc/ > > (Although I feel like I shouldn't need to do that - and that apache > should be able to follow the link...) > This is turned off by default, because following symlinks can be a security risk. E.g. a user could put a symlink in his homedir, and then he could access files through apache which he could not read otherwise. Jens
