I've got a brand new CentOS 6 installation, which has a symlink in the document root to my development files:

[root@localhost html]# ls -l total 4 -rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Sep 18 20:16 index.html -rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 Sep 18 20:16 index.php lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 24 Sep 18 20:19 refresh-app -> /home/billy/refresh-app/ 

My httpd.conf has this:

<Directory "/"> Options All AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </directory> 

The target of the symbolic link has permissions which should allow apache to read anything it wants:

 [root@localhost billy]# ls -l total 40 (Some entries were omitted because the list was too long drwxr-xr-x. 7 billy billy 4096 Sep 18 20:03 refresh-app 

I've also tried disabling SELinux by changing /etc/selinux/conf:

SELINUX=disabled 

Yet no matter what I do, when someone tries to go to that link, http://localhost/refresh-app/, I get a 403 FORBIDDEN error page and this is written in the /var/log/httpd/error_log:

Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible 

Why can't Apache access the target of the symlink?