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kbro
Asked: 2015-04-08 12:24:56 +0800 CST

symlink to PHP file not handled as PHP

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I have PHP5 installed on an Ubuntu 14.04 server and it works fine. I create a file called foo.php anywhere in the document tree and it gets passed to the PHP interpreter just as you'd expect.

However... I don't want the .php extension to be visible in one particular case so I created a symbolic link using "ln -s foo.php foo". If I go to http://localhost/path/to/foo.php then PHP works just fine, but when I go to http://localhost/path/to/foo then I see the PHP source.

I'm guessing that this is because the SetHandler directives in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf are in a <FilesMatch> directive and my filename doesn't end with ".php", but I've got FollowSymlinks enabled, so I was expecting that not to matter. I guess it does.

I know I could use mod_rewrite to do an internal redirect, but that's a bit of a sledgehammer. I could also use Redirect, but that pushes the redirection back to the client, which I want to avoid.

So is there an easy way to tell Apache "follow the symlink, then do auto-type determination based on the found file"?

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. Looking at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#options it says

    Even though the server follows the symlink it does not change the pathname used to match against <Directory> sections.

    I imagine the same is true for matching against <Files> sections, so it can't be done. However, this comes close:-

    <Location "/path/to/foo">
  SetHandler x-foo-handler
  Action x-foo-handler /path/to/foo.php virtual
</Location>
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