Apache on ES5 not recognizing DocumentRoot -- this is an install problem

[Rob Tanner]

On 2/24/10 9:57 AM, "m.roth at 5-cent.us" <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

>> Hi,
>> 
>> I installed ES5 on a brand new box and ported over my document store and
>> config files from a Fedora Core 7 box.  If I bring up apache pointed to
>> it¹s
>> initial default DocumentRoot, /var/www/html, all is fine.  But the
>> DocumentRoot we use is /var/apache/html and just as it was on the Fedora
>> Core system, /var/apache is a mount point, and Apache errs out on
>> start-up:
>> 
>>     Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 282 of
>> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
>>     DocumentRoot must be a directory
> <snip>
> So, what does /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, line 282 read?
> 
>        mark

DocumentRoot "/var/apache/html"