[SOLVED] Apache won't follow symlinks

[Ben Cotton]

This probably won't make a bit of difference, but if you re-start apache will it work? How about if you remove your original symlinks and then re-create them? Neither of those should matter, I wouldn't think, but lets get the little stupid things out of the way.

[alfmarius]

This probably won't make a bit of difference, but if you re-start apache will it work? How about if you remove your original symlinks and then re-create them? Neither of those should matter, I wouldn't think, but lets get the little stupid things out of the way.

Thanks for still hangin in there

wow, I actually found what was cookin! ..it wasn't a "little stupid thing", but one thing led to another, and I found my way. I'm not gonna slap my forehead, cause this was no easy cookie to get out of the oven!

Here's whats up:

The scenarios i described are identical, there is no doubt about that. I tried to plough through the httpd.conf _once_more_ for any hints of whats going on...nada. Then when I tailed the access.log while testing those "little stupid things", I also noticed the error.log and it hit me that I hadn't tailed it, so I did and found something weird:
[..] File does not exist: /usr/share/images/p.gif

What the hell!?! usr/share?? where did that come from? ..2 minutes later i found this:

<IfModule mod_alias.c>
    Alias /images/ /usr/share/images/

    <Directory /usr/share/images/
         Options MultiViews
         AllowOverride None
         Order allow,deny
         Allow from all
    </Directory>
</IfModule>

..in httpd.conf

and there we go. My default httpd.conf had an alias named "images" which kind of overrides the symlink i made...

Case closed! Thank you for letting me help myself hehe