diff --git a/api/src/Vfs/Base.php b/api/src/Vfs/Base.php
index 51696f8fb4..6cf09a96f2 100644
--- a/api/src/Vfs/Base.php
+++ b/api/src/Vfs/Base.php
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ class Base
 				// Make sure we don't cache anything with a link anywhere in the url, since it fails with eg: /apps/InfoLog/Open$/2021$.
 				// is_link() is not always right here
 				$is_link = is_link($url) || (self::symlinkCache_resolve(Vfs::parse_url($url,PHP_URL_PATH)) !== Vfs::parse_url($url,PHP_URL_PATH));
-				if($is_link)
+				if($is_link && $do_symlink)
 				{
 					$old_url = $url;
 					$_url = self::symlinkCache_resolve(Vfs::parse_url($url,PHP_URL_PATH));