PHP has permission denied on simlink

Question

Could I ask for some help with PHP and permissions on Linux. I'm trying to move log files from /var/www/html/log to /home/user/log and then created symbolic link to it. I have used command

ln -s /home/user/log/ log

to create the link and made sure to give permissions 755 (even 777) to both link and folder /home/user/log, as well as owner set to apache:apache on both. But I get permission denied all the time even if I try to just list the files over the symlink. Tried adding to httpd.conf below:

<Directory "/var/www">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride None
  # Allow open access:
  Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory "/home/user/log">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride None
  # Allow open access:
  Require all granted
</Directory>

New folder location permissions

drwxrwxrwx. 3 apache apache 4.0K Feb 15 11:19  log

Symlink permissions

lrwxrwxrwx.  1 apache apache   17 Feb 15 12:57 log -> /home/user/log/

Error from php in chrome browser

Warning: scandir(/var/www/html/log): failed to open dir: Permission denied in /var/www/html/test.php on line 2

test.php code

<?php
  $files = scandir('/var/www/html/log');
  echo '<pre>';
  print_r($files);
  echo '</pre>';
?>

Output of ls -ld /home/user /home/user/log

drwxrwxrwx. 28   user user   4096 Feb 15 11:18 /home/user
drwxrwxrwx.  3 apache apache 4096 Feb 15 12:57 /home/user/log

What am I missing??

Thank you