nginx + FollowSymLinks owner verification

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Saturday 05 January 2013 19:30:46 Lekensteyn wrote:
> Maxim, I found that the disable_symlinks option does not work properly when
> the permissions are restrictive. Please see my observations on
> http://serverfault.com/q/463243/51929.
> 
> In summary: ngx_file_info_wrapper() tries to open() a file if symlinks are
> disabled. That fails if nginx does not have read permissions for the said
> file.
> 

So, you found exactly what the documentation says: 
http://nginx.org/r/disable_symlinks

 wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

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