OK, now I see what you are trying to do. It will be even easier for you to just get rid of the symlink and use an Alias directive in httpd.conf.

Also, check that the account you are running your web server under has read access to the directory/files referenced by the symlink/alias. (The security of the symbolic link itself is basically transparent.)

If you do a:

chmod o+r filename

It will give all users Read permissions to the file specified by filename.