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

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

> 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