Working with symlinks in apache

ln -s /var/www/mysites /home/storage/mysites

I want to store some websites outside of /var/www by using a symlink. To make that work, I had to set chmod o=x permission for all parent directories of the target path.

chmod o=x /home
chmod o=x /home/storage
chmod ug=rwx,o=x /home/storage/mysites
chown -R www-data:www-data /home/storage/mysites

After that, the sites started to work correctly.

https://superuser.com/a/819999/594216

Virtualhost outside of /var/www

<Directory "/mb/var/www">
Require all granted
</Directory>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName trade.mbirgin.com
ServerAlias trade.lvh.me
DocumentRoot /mb/var/www/mbirgin/trade.mbirgin.com

MonoServerPath trade.mbirgin.com "/usr/bin/mod-mono-server4"
MonoApplications trade.mbirgin.com "/:/mb/var/www/mbirgin/trade.mbirgin.com"

KeepAlive Off
MonoDebug trade.mbirgin.com false
MonoMaxCPUTime trade.mbirgin.com 600
MonoAutoRestartMode Time
MonoAutoRestartTime trade.mbirgin.com 00:09:01:00

<Location "/">
Require all granted
MonoSetServerAlias trade.mbirgin.com
SetHandler mono
</Location>
</VirtualHost>

Enable .htaccess for Apache Server

Edit file: /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

• Add/Update:

<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>

• Restart apache2:

sudo service apache2 restart

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CREATE .htaccess

# put this file in restricted folder and create user/password file by
# htpasswd -c /media/data/Belgelerim/AYARLAR/linux/server/pswd username

# .htaccess processing should be allowed in apache config... To do this add "AllowOverride AuthConfig" to related <Directory> . for example:
#<Directory /var/www/html/test>
# AllowOverride AuthConfig
#</Directory>

AuthName "Secure Area"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /media/data/Belgelerim/AYARLAR/linux/server/pswd
require valid-user