I Installed Apache2. In the the folder "var/www/html" I created a symlink to a different HDD that holds a number of movie files. My thinking is that it would be easy to access the movies through a browser from any computer on my local network.
I used the following command string while in the html directory, and created the symlink:
ln -sd /media/guy/movie1/Movies test
While sitting at the server if I click on "test" it opens the correct directory and exposes the files. If I surf to apache from another machine it does not show the symlink.
Excerpt from Apache access log:
192.168.1.158 - - [12/May/2015:08:40:07 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 502 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.7) Gecko/20140802 Firefox/24.7 PaleMoon/24.7.1"
192.168.1.158 - - [12/May/2015:08:40:07 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 502 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.7) Gecko/20140802 Firefox/24.7 PaleMoon/24.7.1"
192.168.1.158 - - [12/May/2015:08:40:07 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 502 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.7) Gecko/20140802 Firefox/24.7 PaleMoon/24.7.1"
192.168.1.158 - - [12/May/2015:08:50:38 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 584 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.7) Gecko/20140802 Firefox/24.7 PaleMoon/24.7.1"
192.168.1.158 - - [12/May/2015:08:50:39 -0400] "GET /icons/blank.gif HTTP/1.1" 304 178 "http://192.168.1.178/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.7) Gecko/20140802 Firefox/24.7 PaleMoon/24.7.1"
Best Answer
A symlink should work fine. You may or may not need to add the directory to
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf
so that apache knows it is allowed to access the non-standard directory.Example (note: I do not use the -d option):
Excerpt from '/etc/apache2/acpahe2.conf'
Make sure all permissions, including parents, are in order. You can do it manually, directory by directory or:
Now, there are some files systems that do not work with Apache, my example was an ext4 filesystem. And some disks that are automounted (mine is not) need an fstab entry to work properly.
Otherwise help us to help you with a little more information, such as any
/var/log/apache2/*.log
entries.