Raymond Roesch writes:
> I use your Apache Server 1.2.3 on HP3000 with MPE/iX 5.5
> Running a script hold.pl in cgi-bin directory works properly.
> But the same script that is in a subdirectory of the cgi-bin/ named
> requests, which is a symbolic link to elsewhere does not work. The
> following error is reported:
>
> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/requests/hold.pl on this
> server.
>
> The error_log reports
> [Tue Mar  3 09:32:58 1998] Server configured -- resuming normal
> operations
> [Tue Mar  3 09:33:13 1998] access to
> /APACHE/PUB/htdocs/cgi-bin/requests/ failed
>  for rr.sws.ch, reason: Symbolic link not allowed
>
> What is wrong in my configuration file?

...deletia...

> <Directory /APACHE/PUB/htdocs/cgi-bin>
> AllowOverride None
> Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
> </Directory>

That looks OK.

I need more information to debug this.  Please do the following and cut/paste
the output to me:

        ls -alR /APACHE/PUB/htdocs/cgi-bin

If cgi-bin/requests is really a symlink pointing somewhere else, I also need
to see a "ls -al" of that directory too.
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