Definite weirdness. Same issue on the non-raided disks, so suspicion wrong. Will copy list as the tests below show some more info. I put in ln -s /home/john/Downloads downloads and the link popped up in the browser right away and I can see files etc. I can also ln -s /etc etc and see those files, and I suspect the ownership ain't john or www-data. Didn't do anything but set up the link to do that. So it is something about jumping across a filesystem boundary. My guess now is some setting in Apache. JN On 2019-03-20 7:55 p.m., Scott Murphy wrote: > Check and see if the directory is 755 all the way down. > > chmod -R 755 /media/john/J6R > > If it is mounting a FAT based disk, it may have issues understanding the permissions, as the FAT file system doesn’t > have permissions as we understand them. > > -- > Scott Murphy, CISSP > Principal Consultant | Arrow-Eye Consulting Inc. > 112 Springcreek Cres. | Kanata | ON | K2M 2K8 | Canada > C: 613-769-9363 | GPG: A8DC6128C3A0E110 > > email: scott [ dot ] murphy [ at ] arrow-eye [ dot ] com <mailto:scott [ dot ] murphy [ at ] arrow-eye [ dot ] com> | web: http://www.arrow-eye.com <http://www.arrow-eye.com/> > > > > >> On Mar 20, 2019, at 4:03 PM, J C Nash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com <mailto:profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com>> wrote: >> >> To facilitate some genealogy work at home, I've found it helpful to point local apache2 >> server at some of my files. This seemed to work fine by just putting a symlink to directories >> in my /home/john area. However, today I tried a symlink to a directory on a RAID1 disk (/dev/md0 >> in my system, mounted at /media/john/J6R). >> >> For some reason I've had no success. Read lots of "help" pages, but no joy. >> >> Things I've played with (possibly incorrectly): >> >> - user and group ownership of various objects >> - (re)mount disk with gid for www-date and uid for me >> - restarts of Apache2 >> - apache2.conf adjustment for directory, available and enabled (symlink), >> adding FollowSymLinks etc. >> >> I've a sneaking suspicion that mdadm disks may need some special setting, or else I'm >> missing something very simple that is staring me in the face. >> >> This isn't terribly urgent or necessary, but it would be nice to know what is going on. >> >> Probably not something that is easy to sort out by the list, so maybe offline until worked >> out. >> >> JN >> >> To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org <mailto:linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> >> To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org <mailto:linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> >> To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org >> > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org