Problem with httpd

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

mike wrote:

>With test2 (fresh clean install) httpd fails to start with the following
>Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]
>Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 272 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
>DocumentRoot must be a directory
>
>this is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
># DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
># documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
># symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
>#
>DocumentRoot "/home/www/html/"
>  
>

this at least here with a fresh clean install and afair at least since 
rhl 6.x and probably longer

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

>This is ls -l /home/www
>drwxrwxr-x   3 mike apache 4096 Apr  2  2004 cgi-bin
>drwxrwxr-x   3 mike apache 4096 Sep 23  2003 error
>drwxrwxr-x  11 mike apache 4096 Apr  2  2004 html
>drwxrwxr-x   3 mike apache 4096 Feb 11 17:54 icons
>drwxrwxr-x  13 mike apache 4096 Sep 23  2003 manual
>  
>

this is at least here with a clean fresh install and after update
/var/www/*
uid = root
gid = root
0755

>so anyone any ideas
>

$ rpm -qi httpd

this is really a fc2t2 package ?
    thanks for wasting my time  ;-)

update your package eg.
# up2date-nox --nosig -u *http*



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shrek-m