Re: [Jailkit-users] a www folder as symlink to a failed folder

[Olivier Sessink]

Mike van Hoof wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My previous problem has been solved, so i hope you can help me with this 
> one.
>
> I am running apache and want a folder (/punbb) to be symbolically linked 
> to the folder /home/jail/home/pizr/html/punbb.
> So I did a ln -s /home/jail/home/pizr/html/punbb ./punbb and i created a 
> nice symbolic link for me... the only thing is that i can't approach 
> this directory. If I go to http://hostname/punbb it gives me and access 
> denied (i also made an index.php in the /home/jail/home/pizr/html/punbb 
> to be sure...)

from the FAQ:

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Symlinks in the jail do not work?

If the symlink contains an absolute path, for example 
/home/jail/var/tmp, it will not work for a jailed user. Because the 
jailed user has /home/jail as root, it means this symlink points to 
/home/jail/home/jail/var/tmp. The symlink should contain the path 
/var/tmp if you want it to point to /home/jail/var/tmp. Relative links 
do not have this problem.
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if you want to have something accessible from outside the jail use a 
bind mount

mount /mypath /jail/mypath -o bind

regards,
        Olivier