> mkdir a
> ln -s a b
> touch a/t
> perl -e ' print "yes\n" if (-e "a/t");'
yes
> perl -e ' print "yes\n" if (-e "b/t");'
yes
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As you can see, in general it works. Are you sure you have the right path? Web address and filesystem path of any file can be totally different because of apaches ability to rewrite addresses

Did you check if you can test whether the directory exists? Or its parent directory and so on?

Here I used a dry run. If you want to create a symlink, comment out name and change -dry_run => 1 to 0. It requires 5.10.1+.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Modern::Perl;
use Setup::File::Symlink qw(setup_symlink);

my $x = '/root/Desktop/tmp';

my $res = setup_symlink(
        name => "create(dry run)",
        symlink => "/y",
        target => "/$x/x",
        other_args => {-dry_run => 1},
        status => 200,
        exists => 1,
);
print "status: 200\n", if $res->[0] == 200;
print "status: 304\n", if $res->[0] == 304;
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I assume you peeked at the test scripts on the usage of setup_symlink(). My bad for not yet providing a Synopsis, but you don't actually need some of the arguments. You only need:

my $res = setup_symlink(
        symlink => "/y",
        target => "/$x/x",
);
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And BTW, I think Setup::File::Symlink is a bit of an overkill in this case.

-e follows symlinks, because it does a stat(), not an lstat(). If the symlink target does not exist or is inaccessible, -e will report false even though the symlink itself exists.

If that is not what you want, you might want to try file_exists() in SHARYANTO::File::Util. Or you can implement the logic itself, by using -l instead of -e.