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Symbolic Links with Web Sharing on Leopard

Posted August 18th, 2008 by admin

Out of the box, Apache won’t follow symbolic links in the ~/Sites directory, which is frustrating for development. After tons of messing with .htaccess files, the fix is simple:

open /etc/apache2/users/[you-user-name].conf
Add FollowSymLinks to options
Save file
Go to System Preferences -> Sharing, and restart Web sharing

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