I just installed CentOS 4.3 and modified /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
like this:

DocumentRoot "/www/site/htdocs"

However, after doing this, every time I tried to start httpd it gives
me the error:

Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 265 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
DocumentRoot must be a directory
[FAILED]

I've checked the folder, syntax, and permissions. Everything is fine.
Is httpd on CentOS on a chrooted environment or something? I am going
nuts over this. Thanks.

I'm totally stumped. It seems I can use /home/* or /var/*, but can't
use /www/*. I looked at the permissions, and they are all the same. Is
there perhaps something in the way the partition is set up, that's
preventing Apache from seeing the /www/ partition? I checked /etc/fstab
and /etc/mtab but didn't find any anomalies.

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:39:14 -0700 sanbat wrote:

> I just installed CentOS 4.3 and modified /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
> like this:
>
> DocumentRoot "/www/site/htdocs"

Not valid according to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) - though
does not cause the error.

> However, after doing this, every time I tried to start httpd it gives
> me the error:
>
> Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 265 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
> DocumentRoot must be a directory
> [FAILED]

ls -ld /www /www/site /www/site/htdocs

> I've checked the folder, syntax, and permissions. Everything is fine.
> Is httpd on CentOS on a chrooted environment or something? I am going
> nuts over this. Thanks.

No, CentOS does not chroot apache.

getenforce -> is SELinux being in enforce mode?
You would see avc / audit messages in either /var/log/messages or
/var/log/audit/audit.log.

Alexander


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