Apache oddity

[Rick Stevens]

Graham Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 17:58, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>Ok, I thought I'd toss this one out there as I'm having trouble sorting
>>it out.
>>
>>Configuration: FC1, 2.4.22-1.2188nptlsmp, 2GB, Apache 1.3.29/PHP 4.3.6
>>Weirdness: Everything is installed in /usr/local/test (including
>>libraries, configs, document roots, cgi-bin, the lot).  Apache runs fine
>>from there, serves pages and works perfectly.
>>
>>When the contents of /usr/local/test are copied to an NFS volume which
>>is then mounted at /usr/local/test, apache runs but will not serve
>>pages.  Apache's error log shows:
>>
>>(13)Permission denied: access to / failed because search permissions are
>>missing on a component of the path
>>
>>Again, the EXACT CODE is used (via a "cp -a").  Ownership and
>>permissions are fine (trust me, I've checked).  Has anyone seen this
>>behaviour?  Care to clue me in?  Is Fedora doing something, uh,
>>"special" in its NFS handling?  Apache's message is misleading at best.
> 
> 
> If the logs directory is also NFS mounted, I suggest looking at the
> documentation for the LockFile directive in the configuration file.

Negative, the logs are on a local drive as is the PHP session
information.

As I said in a later post, this appears to be some weirdness between the
underlying mountpoint and the NFS mount itself.
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