Chris wrote:
> Hi, this is a newbie question about symlinks. I'm using a J2EE server to
> serve up a website. Under the website directory, I created a symlink to
> point to a directory of jpegs elsewhere on the server. Everything looks
> fine: from the command line I can navigate to the new virtual directory,
> list files, etc.
>
> But the webserver won't serve any images (or anything else) out of the
> virtual directory. I'm getting broken links or 404s.
>
> So somehow the webserver is treating a virtual directory differently from a
> real one. Is this a webserver thing? (I'm using Jetty) Is it a security
> thing? (I gave the user who launched the webserver full rights to the
> directory). Or is it something else?
>

I'm not as familiar with Jetty but Apache has a "FollowSymLinks"
directive that controls the server's ability to use symlinks. You may
want to check for a similar setting.
-Ken