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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
20374Bug reportsOtherpublic2026-03-20 15:46
ReporterDenisChenu Assigned To 
PrioritynoneSeverityminor 
Status assignedResolutionopen 
Product Version6.6.x 
Summary20374: No way to get Question theme with symbolic link
Description

When using symbolic link to Question theme directory : theme didn't appear

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce

Get a theme and download it https://github.com/tpartner/LimeSurvey-Net-Promoter-Score (for example)
Put it in /var/www/themes (for example) and be sure www-data can read it
Put the symbolic link to ./upload/themes/question/ (ln -s /var/www/themes/LimeSurvey-Net-Promoter-Score/Net-Promoter-Score /var/www/limesurvey/upload/themes/question/)
Check question theme list

Expected result

See the theme to install

Actual result

No theme to install

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Bug heat4
Complete LimeSurvey version number (& build)6.16.0
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Server OS (if known)Linux debian
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DenisChenu

DenisChenu

2025-11-27 17:47

developer   ~83953

Interest

For development : I use symbolic link for all of my plugin then can test on different LimeSurvey version (and all of my repo are oin a specific directory)
If you have 2 instances or more on same server: you can use same files for different instance (you don't do it for limeservices ?)

And there are no reason it was not allowed

c_schmitz

c_schmitz

2026-03-20 15:33

administrator   ~84502

Security is certainly a reason.

DenisChenu

DenisChenu

2026-03-20 15:46

developer   ~84506

Security is certainly a reason.

? Why ? It's my choice to get by link and it's only accessible by server admin

Symbolic link work for plugins and for the Survey theme.

It's OK if i fix it ?

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-11-27 17:45 DenisChenu New Issue
2025-11-27 17:47 DenisChenu Note Added: 83953
2025-11-27 17:47 DenisChenu Bug heat 0 => 2
2026-03-02 14:56 c_schmitz Assigned To => c_schmitz
2026-03-02 14:56 c_schmitz Status new => assigned
2026-03-20 15:33 c_schmitz Note Added: 84502
2026-03-20 15:33 c_schmitz Bug heat 2 => 4
2026-03-20 15:34 c_schmitz Assigned To c_schmitz =>
2026-03-20 15:46 DenisChenu Note Added: 84506