Disable Apache’s following of Symbolic Links

Environment : APache webserver

-          By default Apache webserver follows symlinks,

-          We can turn off this feature with FollowSymLinks with Options directive.

-          Open the HTTD.conf file and add the below line.

# Options -FollowSymLinks

-          If there is a need for FollowSymLinks feature, can be enabled by writing in the rule in “.htaccess” file from that website.

# Enable symbolic links

              # Options +FollowSymLinks

Note: To enable rewrite rules inside “.htaccess” file “AllowOverride All” should be present in the main configuration globally.