I'm having some issues with permissions when it comes to symbolic links on my apache2 webserver. I originally had a data/ in /var/www , but was it getting too large for the directory and I kept getting a partition full warning. I'd like to move the data/ folder to /home/processor/Documents/sandbox/www_data/
I moved all the data to www_data and created a symbolic link in /var/www
ln -s /home/processor/Documents/sandbox/www_data data
Checking the link:
:/var/www$ ls -l data
lrwxrwxrwx 1 processor processor 43 Mar 16 17:03 data -> /home/processor/Documents/sandbox/www_data/
An example of the data shows that all permissions seem reasonable to me:
:/var/www$ ls -l data/2/15/2015/8/25/10/54/wf/2_15_2015_8_25_10_54_11*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 processor processor 475643 Mar 16 16:58 data/2/15/2015/8/25/10/54/wf/2_15_2015_8_25_10_54_11.png
-rwxrwxrwx 1 processor processor 53539 Mar 16 16:58 data/2/15/2015/8/25/10/54/wf/2_15_2015_8_25_10_54_11_thumb.png
This is whats in between the <VirtualHost *:80> </VirtualHost> in my /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options FollowSymLinks Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
But when trying too access it from the site I get "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /data/2/15/2015/8/25/9/46/wf/2_15_2015_8_25_9_46_28.png on this server."
I've read through a bunch of threads and have chown www-data:www-data, I've chmod -R 777 everything, and changed my 000-default.conf to numerous varieties of the same thing, but nothing is working. I don't know where to go from here.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks