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Re: [PLUG] USB mount as Apache DocumentRoot
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On 5/5/05, roliver3@comcast.net <roliver3@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new to the list and haven't been to any meetings yet but plan to in the near future. I live out in the burbs, lower bucks. I hope this is an appropriate question to ask this list.
>
> I have Apache 2.0.52 installed on a lap top running Fedora Core3. I use this laptop for web development and I keep all my content files e.g. html,php, perl etc on a USB jump drive. I'd like to use the USB drive as the DocumentRoot for apache. Here are the steps I took
>
> 1) mounted the USB drive like this: mount /dev/sdb1 /var/www/html/content (this works fine)
> 2) changed the DocumentRoot directive in httpd.conf to /var/www/html/content
> 3) restarted apache
>
> When it restarts I always get the following warning:
> Starting httpd: Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/html/content] does not exist
>
> I know the mount point exist because I can cd to the content dir and see files. I've tried mounting to a different directory and creating sym links to the document root. I've added Alias directives to the httpd.conf file then referencing the Alias in the DocumentRoot but all to no avail. I know there has to be a way to do this. Any help would greatly be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Rodney
Hi Rodney:
It looks like the problem is with Fedora's SELinux restrictions on
what can be DocumentRoot.
Googling -selinux apache documentroot- may point you in the right
direction. I'm not experienced with selinux, so I can't just give you
the quick answer.
--
-Chad C Waters
http://chadcwaters.com
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