Dropbox - Apache2 - Symbolic link - Permissions woes.

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Recently, a new symbolic link was included in a root html folder.

That symbolic link  resulted in the following apache2 error.log output.

AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/www/html/SYMLINK

All the other symbolic links  worked as intended. Main difference being target location. This particular symbolic link was located in a Dropbox folder.

Solution:

chmod 755 ~/Dropbox

Note to self: The Dropbox folder needs a little permission adjustment.

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