title: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible
body: <p>I have a folder somewhere on my webserver and a symlink to this folder from a public_html of another user. For the purpose of centralizing some content.</p>
  
  <p>I can perfectly include files from within this symlinked folder.
  However, I can not access a file (e.g. test.html or test.php) directly.</p>
  
  <p>If I try to access a file directly I get a forbidden error in the browser and in the log files I see: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have tried to edit the httpconf as I found on the internet, tried to put a .htaccess in the folder where the symlink recides etc. But nothing has helped so far. </p>
  
  <p>Additional info:
  My webserver runs CentOS release 6.5 (Final)
  Apache 2.2.27</p>
  
  <p>permissions to the parentfolder of the linked folder: 777</p>
  
  <p>Permissions to the linked folder: 777</p>
  
  <p>I have set them from 644 to 777 for testing purposes</p>
  
  <p>And please note that I am a programmer running into problems, not a linux expert :) </p>
  
  <p>*** I still do not have a working solution. I can use the files by including them, just fine, just not call any files directly e.g. images, stylesheets. I have no idea what other details to give that will help solve this problem.
  The permissions are ok for the link, folder and parentfolder
  Changing the owner of either link or folder does also not give any results
  Options FollowSymLinks in .htaccess in the folder with the link, the parent of that folder, the destination folder and parent of destination folder, it does all not seem to help.
  I can just not execute files and really need to</p>