httpd.conf in fedora

Mark Weaver mdw1982 at mdw1982.com
Tue Mar 15 00:48:45 UTC 2005


Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> I *have* 
> 
> 1. I've edited /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf so it reads ...
> # DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
> DocumentRoot "/mnt/SharedFiles/www"
> ...
> 
> 2. I've commented out /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf
> 
> 3. the /mnt/SharedFiles/www is owned by 'root' and the 'common' group of
> which apache is a member.
> 
> But i still get the content from /var/www/error/noindex.html
> 
> Something someone isn't working as I expected!
> 
> Thanks for your patience guys.
> 
> Duncan
> 

I would think you'd want ownership of the DocumentRoot to be that of Apache.

	i.e. apache.apache
	
	     instead of
	
	     root.apache

Its been my experience having ownership for a web server's document root 
can be rather problematic rather than a good thing to do.

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Mark
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