symbolic links and apache

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Hi

I'm trying to follow the install instructions for tikiwiki in 
4.3/packages/i386

it's telling me create a symbolic link with

# ln -s /var/www/tikiwiki /var/www/htdocs/tikiwiki

this then appears to work as i can

cd /var/www/htdocs/tikiwiki

and everthing appears normal, but when i point a web browser at 
<localhost>/tikiwiki/tiki-admin.php

i get a 404 Not Found, same with everything else that should be in the 
folder. Can someone point me in the right direction?

kim