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Offline heekz.shadow

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Re: Cannot Create a Symbolic Link
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2014, 04:00:33 pm »
I ain't no linux genius but I'd advice you to use google....
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Re: Cannot Create a Symbolic Link
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2014, 04:07:21 pm »
What are you talking about?I've never heard of  SymLinksIfOwnerMatch and FollowSymLinks.

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Only root user can access to root's directory. Notice that your server probably uses www-data user with www-data group permission and I guess you're running apache - please read about SymLinksIfOwnerMatch and FollowSymLinks to understand why they are needed.
You have three methods suggested by me:

1) Move server files to for example /opt and don't run the server as root for security reasons*, then make a symbolic link to /opt instead of /root.
2) You can use cron to set simply task that will be executed every 15 mins which copies your server's database to your website directory, change permissions to www-data and is read-only. (more secure than the first method)
3) Use MySQL.

* - This refers to all options listed above.

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Re: Cannot Create a Symbolic Link
« Reply #17 on: September 30, 2014, 06:32:56 pm »
Finally Its working :)

I've used Option 1 and now i changed my user to honey from root.Thank you gudio,thijn and Souly

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Re: Cannot Create a Symbolic Link
« Reply #18 on: September 30, 2014, 09:47:20 pm »
What are you talking about?I've never heard of  SymLinksIfOwnerMatch and FollowSymLinks.

RTFM. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html
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Re: Cannot Create a Symbolic Link
« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2014, 01:21:28 pm »
The topic is already solved but thanks for link. Topic Locked.