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sademojihere

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Registered: 2023-04-20

Posts: 2

XAMPP symlink problem

Hi! I'd like to symlink a folder in user's home /home/user/userdir to /opt/lampp/htdocs. I've created symlink correctly, it works in terminal/file explorer, however it does not show up on xampp.
Now I'll list some things I've already tried.
- changed userdir perm to 777
- tried changing  /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf  user to nouser and group to nogroup from daemon after which xampp did not launch "bad group name nogroup"
- checked if FollowSymLinks generated correctly
What may be the problem here?
Thank you in advance.

jonno2002

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Registered: 2016-11-21

Posts: 868

Re: XAMPP symlink problem

you might have to set 755 perm on /home/user as well, OR run xampp as 'user', OR make xampp a member of the group 'user' and chmod 750 /home/user.
its all about permissions, whatever user and group xampp runs as needs to have read and exec permission to the htdocs/symlinked dir and all dirs above

sademojihere

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Registered: 2023-04-20

Posts: 2

Re: XAMPP symlink problem

Thanks a lot, setting perms to 755 worked problem solved

Last edited by sademojihere (2023-04-23 09:17:27)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: XAMPP symlink problem

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