Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible

melloman

• May 18, 2016 18:43

I am running WHM/cPanel with CloudLinux and have tried to setup a fairly straight forward symlink from /public_html/symtest to /public_html/images The symlink works perfectly when I browse to it via FTP but when I browse (in a web browser) to the directory or a file within the linked directory, I get a 403 Forbidden error. When I check the Apache error logs it shows the following error: AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /home/*USER*/public_html/symtest I've checked the WHM Apache settings (Apache Configuration > Global Configuration) and have made sure FollowSymLinks is ticked. How can I get this Symlink to work?

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  24x7server

  • May 19, 2016 13:27

  Hello :), You are using cloudlinux on your server so can you please check cloudlinux symlink protection setting on your server with the following URL. CloudLinux Documentation

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  melloman

  • May 19, 2016 21:32

  Here is what I have in /etc/sysctl.conf # System default settings live in /usr/lib/sysctl.d/00-system.conf. # To override those settings, enter new settings here, or in an /etc/sysctl.d/.conf file # # For more information, see sysctl.conf(5) and sysctl.d(5). fs.symlinkown_gid = 99 # CageFS fs.proc_can_see_other_uid=0 # SecureLinks Link Traversal Protection Allowd Group Id fs.protected_symlinks_allow_gid = 984 fs.protected_hardlinks_allow_gid = 984 I tried changing fs.proc_can_see_other_uid to 1 I tried changing fs.protected_symlinks_allow_gid & fs.protected_hardlinks_allow_gid to 99 I tried adding fs.enforce_symlinksifowner = 0 to the bottom of /etc/sysctl.conf After running sysctl -p there was no difference.

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  cPanelMichael

  • May 30, 2016 21:20

  Hello, Could you verify if the symbolic link itself is owned by the account username? Thank you.

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