The Options directive configures the web server features that are available in particular directories. The FollowSymLinks option controls the ability of the server to follow symbolic links.

Using stat command The stat utility is used to get the status of files and can also be utilized to find the original source of the symbolic link. Just give a path of the symbolic link to the stat command and that's it. And if you find the other details unnecessary, you can use the -c%N option to filter them out.

Accessing the Apache status is rather easy. Suppose you are running a flavor of Linux with systemd as the initialization (init) system, such as Ubuntu 16.04 and above, CentOS 7 and above, or Fedora. In that case, you can use the systemctl status command to check the status of the Apache service.

Create a symbolic link to create an alias for a target file or directory and use it just like the actual file or directory. To create a symbolic link in Linux, you can use the ln -s command, followed by the target file or directory and the desired link name.