following symlinks

[jackdempsey]

Hi all,

I'm trying to serve up some static files that I've linked to via a symlink. The -f check is failing:

# check if the file exists and serve it
    if (-f $request_filename) {
      access_log        off;
     expires           1d;
     break;
   }

as its obviously not a file. I saw something that suggested using -e instead for symlinks, but that doesn't seem to work for me either (this is version 0.6.32 fwiw). Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to have symlink'ed files served up?

thanks so much,
jack

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,677,677#msg-677