From bb5b2645c22c5d62f64289b842e9b60513432845 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Gilli <25326036+gilbertsoft@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:02:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix TYPO3 project detection to work with non existent
 symlinks, fixes #4326

---
 pkg/ddevapp/typo3.go | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkg/ddevapp/typo3.go b/pkg/ddevapp/typo3.go
index 75389678adb..f219d7026c0 100644
--- a/pkg/ddevapp/typo3.go
+++ b/pkg/ddevapp/typo3.go
@@ -152,9 +152,18 @@ func setTypo3SiteSettingsPaths(app *DdevApp) {
 
 // isTypoApp returns true if the app is of type typo3
 func isTypo3App(app *DdevApp) bool {
-	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(app.AppRoot, app.Docroot, "typo3")); err == nil {
+	typo3Folder := filepath.Join(app.AppRoot, app.Docroot, "typo3")
+
+	// Check if the folder exists, fails if a symlink target does not exist.
+	if _, err := os.Stat(typo3Folder); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
 		return true
 	}
+
+	// Check if a symlink exists, succeeds even if the target does not exist.
+	if _, err := os.Lstat(typo3Folder); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		return true
+	}
+
 	return false
 }