FC3 issue with apache 2

[Götz Reinicke]

scootgirl.com wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Kelsoe" <randykel at swbell.net>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 1:29 AM
> Subject: Re: FC3 issue with apache 2
> 
> 
>> scootgirl.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I installed FC3 and I wanted to move my apache2 documentroot from its 
>>> default /var/www/html to another volume located at /space/vhosts. 
>>> When I do this apache2 complains:
>>>
>>> Syntax error on line 265 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
>>> DocumentRoot must be a directory
>>>
>>> This is a directory and is writeable by me, and has the user apache 
>>> access to list and read its files. Yet, for some reason, apache 
>>> doesn't like this volume.
>>
>>
>>
>> What do you get when you do a 'grep -i documentroot 
>> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf'
>>
>> and a 'ls -l /space/'   ?
> 
> 
> I get:
> 
> DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
> #DocumentRoot "/space/vhosts"
> 
> The second entry I comment out and try both. I get that error when the 
> DocumentRoot "/space/vhosts" is used.
> 
> For the 2nd request I get:
> 
> [root at utopia karen]# ls -l /space/
> total 48
> drwxr-sr-x   2 karen karen  4096 Nov 12 02:18 Anonymous_FTP
> drwxr-sr-x   2 karen karen 16384 Nov 11 15:35 lost+found
> drwxr-sr-x  20 karen karen  4096 Nov 12 03:15 programs
> drwxr-sr-x   4 karen karen  4096 Nov 15 05:55 scootgirl_backups
> drwxr-sr-x  58 karen karen  4096 Nov 14 13:14 vhosts

try setting the user (owner) of vhosts to the user apache is runnig.

Regards

Götz Reinicke
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