Creating a symbolic link in Sites directory

Question

I have a file in my ~/Sites directory that works fine when I browse to it through coderama.local/~coderama/index2.php

Now I want to get tricky and move my index2.php file to somewhere else on my system, so I do this by creating a symbolic link. However, when I try to access coderama.local/~coderama/index2.php I now get the following error.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks!

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~coderama/index2.php on this server.

Answer 1

I don't remember the specific reason why, but it doesn't work. It's a security issue. You can use XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html or MAMP http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html to get around this.

Answer 2

Seems like a security issue (also suggested by Matt)

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1771399