Apache Config - how to make a directory accessable ?

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:33 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 13:10 -0600, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> > Hi All;
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I have a laptop running Fedora10 x86_64.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I started the default config and I can go to http://localhost and I
> > see the expected Fedora Test Page.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I want to install a web site in /stage/webpages/csweb (/stage is a
> > separate file system) so I did this:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 1) I checked to make sure the httpd.conf file was including the
> > conf.d/* files with this line in the httpd.conf file:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Include conf.d/*.conf
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 2) I added this file (named csweb.conf) to the /etc/httpd/conf.d
> > directory:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > #
> > # Setup directory: /stage/webpages/csweb
> > #
> > AliasMatch ^/csweb(?:/(?:de|en|fr|ja|ko|ru))?(/.*)?$
> > "/stage/webpages/csweb$1"
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > <Directory "/stage/webpages/csweb">
> > Options Indexes
> > AllowOverride None
> > Order allow,deny
> > Allow from all
> > </Directory>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I restarted apache (service httpd restart) and I go to
> > "http://localhost/csweb" and I get this:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ============================================
> > Forbidden
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > You don't have permission to access /csweb on this server
> ----
> I was under the impression that httpd would automatically load all conf
> files in /etc/httpd/conf.d and such an addition was unnecessary.
> 
> httpd runs as user 'apache' and would necessarily have to be able to
> descend to the proper folder in this setup.
> 
> output of...?
> ls -ld /stage /stage/webpages /stage/webpages/csweb
> 
> Also, this kind of setup would cause all sorts of problems with selinux
> if it's on and would require some chcon adjustments. All of this could
> be avoided by simply doing a bind mount of /stage/webpages/csweb to
> something in /var/www/html...
> 
> mkdir /var/www/html/csweb
> mount -o bind /stage/webpages/csweb /var/www/html
> 
> and if that works, makes user, selinux happy, then you could permanently
> add it to fstab
----
um...

mount -o bind /stage/webpages/csweb /var/www/html/csweb

probably would work better ;-)

Craig


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