Linking to directory outside document root

I have files that I want to serve up in apache on linux.
Running Apache/2.2.2 (Fedora)

the files are in a folder call fs in my home dir /home/vsite

/home/vsite/fs

drwxr-xr-x 2 vsite vsite 12288 Mar 12 07:50 fs

an example file
-rw-r--r-- 1 vsite vsite 3533 Mar 12 12:55 file1.html

The DocumentRoot is :
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

I made a link inside /var/www/html
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 12 13:01 fs -> /home/vsite/fs

I try to go to the file1.html as follows:

http://10.3.3.131/fs/file1.thml and get forbidden .....

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /fs/ on this server.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/2.2.2 (Fedora) Server at 10.3.3.131 Port 80


I also have this in my httpd.conf

<Directory "/home/vsite/fs">
Order allow,deny
</Directory>


<Directory "/var/www/html">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


Also

I tried to change the DocumentRoot to "/home/vsite/fs"
but apache won't start when I have
DocumentRoot "/home/vsite/fs"


solving either of the above would be fine

thanx

Roger

"spacemancw" <spacemancw@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have files that I want to serve up in apache on linux.
> Running Apache/2.2.2 (Fedora)
>
> the files are in a folder call fs in my home dir /home/vsite
>
> /home/vsite/fs
>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 vsite vsite 12288 Mar 12 07:50 fs
>
> an example file
> -rw-r--r-- 1 vsite vsite 3533 Mar 12 12:55 file1.html
>
> The DocumentRoot is :
> DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
>
> I made a link inside /var/www/html
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 12 13:01 fs -> /home/vsite/fs
>
> I try to go to the file1.html as follows:
>
> http://10.3.3.131/fs/file1.thml and get forbidden .....
>
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /fs/ on this server.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Apache/2.2.2 (Fedora) Server at 10.3.3.131 Port 80
>
>
> I also have this in my httpd.conf
>
> <Directory "/home/vsite/fs">
> Order allow,deny
> </Directory>
>
The above section is incomplete - you've told apache what order your
allow/deny directives will appear, but you haven't used any.
add an allow directive:

<Directory "/home/vsite/fs">
Order allow,deny

Allow from all
</Directory>