title: "Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible" on fresh installed XAMPP for Linux
body: <p>I did a fresh-install of XAMPP for Linux (version 1.7.4) on my Ubuntu 11.04 x64 laptop.
  Then I made a link in my htdocs folder to my project folder:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$pwd
  /opt/lampp/htdocs
  $sudo ln -s /home/petra/projects/webapp webapp
  $ls -al
  drwxr-xr-x  4 nobody root 4096 2011-08-18 11:58 .
  drwxr-xr-x 18 root   root 4096 2011-01-25 15:33 ..
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root   26 2011-08-18 11:42 webapp -&gt; /home/petra/projects/webapp
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I opened the webapp in the browser using <code>http://localhost/webapp</code>, it only showed "403 Access Forbidden". The error log said:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$tail -f /opt/lampp/logs/error_log
  [Thu Aug 18 11:43:15 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /opt/lampp/htdocs/webapp
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the <a href="http://pastebin.com/ajDZ3sMa" rel="noreferrer">httpd.conf</a>. Strangely, the <code>FollowSymLinks</code> options are already defined (default).</p>
  
  <p>There is a <a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?t=28676" rel="noreferrer">similar question on the XAMPP forum</a> but I think nobody seems to pay attention to it anymore.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?</p>