titan21 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Been tidying up my server setup and I wanted to create a symbolic link so that /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/_external/domain.com/www -> /etc/apache2/sites-available/_external/domain.com/www This doesn't seem to be picked up however and a call to the virtual host I defined just results in going to the default virtual host. Is there a limit to how deep the directory structure can go for sites-enabled? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Reminds me, I totally need to clean up my Apache configuration too It depends on the Include directive. My Ubuntu 11.10 with Apache 2.2 uses Include sites-enabled/ which means that Apache scans its files and subdirectories. If it were "sites-enabled/*" then it would only check the files. I just tried sticking a link in three levels deep and it worked fine. Are you sure the symlink is right? Normally they're like "../sites-available/foo", which would break if you simply moved the file somewhere. But Apache should complain if that were the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
titan21 Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 Checked the symlink and it ain't broken. Had a thought tho and it seemed to work. I had a directory called "_external". Renaming this to "external" seemed to fix it! Anyone know why Apache don't like directories beginning with an underscore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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