httpd.conf trouble

[Paul Howarth]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> Trying to run httpd in fc3.
> I would have thought I could get this right by now...
> 
> Why doesn't this work?:
> 
> # DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
> DocumentRoot "/mnt/SharedFiles/www"
> 
> It just keeps saying
> 
> "DocumentRoot must be a directory"
> 
> It *is* a directory, apache is a member of the owning group, i can get
> into the folder myself no trouble. it's fat32 on a different partition -
> but i had it working in fc2, so what's the problem? This is really
> starting to bug me...

Putting a DocumentRoot on a FAT32 partition is a non-starter if you want 
to use SELinux to protect httpd. Are you using SELinux?

What's the output of:

$ ls -ld /mnt/SharedFiles/www
$ ls -l /mnt/SharedFiles/www

Paul.