FC3 issue with apache 2

[scootgirl.com]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randy Kelsoe" <randykel at swbell.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: FC3 issue with apache 2


> scootgirl.com wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed FC3 and I wanted to move my apache2 documentroot from its 
>> default /var/www/html to another volume located at /space/vhosts. When I 
>> do this apache2 complains:
>>
>> Syntax error on line 265 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
>> DocumentRoot must be a directory
>>
>> This is a directory and is writeable by me, and has the user apache 
>> access to list and read its files. Yet, for some reason, apache doesn't 
>> like this volume.
>
>
> What do you get when you do a 'grep -i documentroot 
> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf'
>
> and a 'ls -l /space/'   ?

I get:

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
#DocumentRoot "/space/vhosts"

The second entry I comment out and try both. I get that error when the 
DocumentRoot "/space/vhosts" is used.

For the 2nd request I get:

[root at utopia karen]# ls -l /space/
total 48
drwxr-sr-x   2 karen karen  4096 Nov 12 02:18 Anonymous_FTP
drwxr-sr-x   2 karen karen 16384 Nov 11 15:35 lost+found
drwxr-sr-x  20 karen karen  4096 Nov 12 03:15 programs
drwxr-sr-x   4 karen karen  4096 Nov 15 05:55 scootgirl_backups
drwxr-sr-x  58 karen karen  4096 Nov 14 13:14 vhosts

Karen
http://scootgirl.com/