Re: [Jailkit-users] a www folder as symlink to a failed folder

[Mike van Hoof]

Olivier Sessink schreef:
> Mike van Hoof wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My previous problem has been solved, so i hope you can help me with 
> > this one.
> >
> > I am running apache and want a folder (/punbb) to be symbolically 
> > linked to the folder /home/jail/home/pizr/html/punbb.
> > So I did a ln -s /home/jail/home/pizr/html/punbb ./punbb and i 
> > created a nice symbolic link for me... the only thing is that i can't 
> > approach this directory. If I go to http://hostname/punbb it gives me 
> > and access denied (i also made an index.php in the 
> > /home/jail/home/pizr/html/punbb to be sure...)
>
> from the FAQ:
>
> ------
> Symlinks in the jail do not work?
>
> If the symlink contains an absolute path, for example 
> /home/jail/var/tmp, it will not work for a jailed user. Because the 
> jailed user has /home/jail as root, it means this symlink points to 
> /home/jail/home/jail/var/tmp. The symlink should contain the path 
> /var/tmp if you want it to point to /home/jail/var/tmp. Relative links 
> do not have this problem.
> ------
>
> if you want to have something accessible from outside the jail use a 
> bind mount
>
> mount /mypath /jail/mypath -o bind
>
> regards,
>     Olivier 
Hello,

I think you misunderstood me, because i want the symbolic link to be in 
/var/www/html and this is outside the jail. It has to point to a 
directory inside the jail...
Or am i misunderstanding you??

- Mike