Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible

[melloman]

I am running WHM/cPanel with CloudLinux and have tried to setup a fairly straight forward symlink from /public_html/symtest to /public_html/images

The symlink works perfectly when I browse to it via FTP but when I browse (in a web browser) to the directory or a file within the linked directory, I get a 403 Forbidden error.

When I check the Apache error logs it shows the following error:
AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /home/*USER*/public_html/symtest


I've checked the WHM Apache settings (Apache Configuration > Global Configuration) and have made sure FollowSymLinks is ticked.
How can I get this Symlink to work?

 

[24x7server]

Hello ,

You are using cloudlinux on your server so can you please check cloudlinux symlink protection setting on your server with the following URL.

CloudLinux Documentation

 

[melloman]

Here is what I have in /etc/sysctl.conf
# System default settings live in /usr/lib/sysctl.d/00-system.conf.
# To override those settings, enter new settings here, or in an /etc/sysctl.d/<name>.conf file
#
# For more information, see sysctl.conf(5) and sysctl.d(5).

fs.symlinkown_gid = 99
# CageFS
fs.proc_can_see_other_uid=0
# SecureLinks Link Traversal Protection Allowd Group Id
fs.protected_symlinks_allow_gid = 984
fs.protected_hardlinks_allow_gid = 984


I tried changing fs.proc_can_see_other_uid to 1
I tried changing fs.protected_symlinks_allow_gid & fs.protected_hardlinks_allow_gid to 99
I tried adding fs.enforce_symlinksifowner = 0 to the bottom of /etc/sysctl.conf

After running sysctl -p there was no difference.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

Could you verify if the symbolic link itself is owned by the account username?

Thank you.