FC3 issue with apache 2

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 19 05:31:05 UTC 2004


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.
>
Karen:

The directory and all files in it must be writable by apache and (if I 
remember correctly) must be owned by the user running httpd. 

See if changing this will allow httpd to run.

-- 

James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
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