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Symbolic links in content directory #567

Closed andy47 closed 3 years ago

andy47 commented 3 years ago

I've got my site contents in a folder under my home directory. I have then symlinked these files to the content folder in my Pico installation under /var/www/pico But I get a 404 for any symlinked file. When I create a file directly in the content folder Pico works fine.

I've checked file/link ownership and permission and everything looks OK to me.

I know that symlinking is working fine because I've linked an html file from my home directory to /var/www/html and that is appearing just fine.

This is running under Apache - initially on Mac OS but I'm having the same issue on Ubuntu 20.04.

Can anyone let me know what I need to do to get symbolic links resolved and rendered by Pico?

PhrozenByte commented 3 years ago

Your PHP is verly likely configured not to include arbitrary files using a open_basedir restriction. Check your php.ini. Symlinks should work just fine with Pico - as long as PHP actually has permission to read that file.

andy47 commented 3 years ago

Thanks, it was permissions. When I granted the Apache user (www-data) permission on the directory with the .md files in it the site started working. Thanks very much for the pointers.