Apache oddity
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon May 10 23:21:54 UTC 2004
> Ok, I thought I'd toss this one out there as I'm having trouble
> sorting it out.
>
> Configuration: FC1, 2.4.22-1.2188nptlsmp, 2GB, Apache 1.3.29/PHP 4.3.6
> Weirdness: Everything is installed in /usr/local/test (including
> libraries, configs, document roots, cgi-bin, the lot). Apache runs
> fine from there, serves pages and works perfectly.
>
> When the contents of /usr/local/test are copied to an NFS volume which
> is then mounted at /usr/local/test, apache runs but will not serve
> pages. Apache's error log shows:
> (13)Permission denied: access to / failed because search permissions
> are missing on a component of the path
> Again, the EXACT CODE is used (via a "cp -a"). Ownership and
> permissions are fine (trust me, I've checked). Has anyone seen this
> behaviour? Care to clue me in? Is Fedora doing something, uh,
> "special" in its NFS handling? Apache's message is misleading at
> best.
Weird. I figured it out, but it sure doesn't make sense. The
mountpoint was set 755, but the NFS mount wouldn't allow an unprivileged
user to traverse the tree. If I unmounted it, changed the mountpoint to
777 and remounted, all is well.
Something doesn't smell right here...
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