Apache configuration

[biggsk]

Can you post the <Directory>, and DocumentRoot sections of your httpd.conf file?

[chrisk]

Thanks for your continued willingness to help me solve my problem, when we get this working I will turn it into a tutorial, configuring Apache isn't easy, and having followed many links, I'm not the only one who has had this problem.

this one:
<Directory "/home/chris/Public/www">
or this one:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

DocumentRoot "/home/chris/Public/www"

Chris

Try

ls -lZ /chris/public/www/

ls -lZ /chris/Public/www/

or

ls -lZ chris/public/www/

ls -lZ chris/Public/www/

[biggsk]

Change
<Directory "/home/chris/Public/www">

to <Directory />
So it looks like this:

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>

Leave the DocumentRoot as is:

DocumentRoot "/home/chris/Public/www"

Restart the apache service.
Then try to access the site.

[chrisk]

Thanks LLS, here are the results:

[chris@webserver ~]$ su
Password:
[root@webserver chris]# ls -lZ /chris/Public/www/
ls: cannot access /chris/Public/www/: No such file or directory
[root@webserver chris]# exit
exit
[chris@webserver ~]$ ls -lZ /chris/Public/www/
ls: cannot access /chris/Public/www/: No such file or directory
[chris@webserver ~]$ ls -lZ chris/Public/www/
ls: cannot access chris/Public/www/: No such file or directory
[chris@webserver ~]$ su
Password:
[root@webserver chris]# ls -lZ chris/Public/www/
ls: cannot access chris/Public/www/: No such file or directory
[root@webserver chris]#


Chris

[chrisk]

biggsk, I did as you suggested, sorry to say, still no go.

Chris

[biggsk]

who is the owner of the /home/chris/Public/www.

paste output of:

ls -l /home/chris/Public/

[chrisk]

Hi biggsk,

[chris@webserver ~]$ ls -l /home/chris/Public/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 chris chris 4096 2008-11-24 09:24 www
[chris@webserver ~]$

Chris

[biggsk]

Ok. Try this:

chown apache /home/chris/Public/www

chgrp apache /home/chris/Public/www

service httpd restart

Try to access your site.

[chrisk]

Thanks again, biggsk:

[chris@webserver ~]$ chown apache /home/chris/Public/www
chown: changing ownership of `/home/chris/Public/www': Operation not permitted
[chris@webserver ~]$ su
Password:
[root@webserver chris]# chown apache /home/chris/Public/www
[root@webserver chris]# chgrp apache /home/chris/Public/www
[root@webserver chris]# service httpd restart
bash: service: command not found
[root@webserver chris]#

I saw that before issuing that command, I'll reboot.

Chris

[chrisk]

Hi biggsk,

I rebooted, saw a message flash by saying something about directory without matching directory, hit the pause button, which didn't stop the boot, still no go.

Chris

[biggsk]

as root do:

/sbin/service httpd restart

Paste error messages here.

[chrisk]

[chris@webserver ~]$ su
Password:
[root@webserver chris]# /sbin/service httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [FAILED]
Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 337 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: </Directory> without matching <Directory> section
[FAILED]
[root@webserver chris]#

[chrisk]

I edited the httpd.conf file, restoring

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

back to <Directory "/home/chris/Public/www"> and performed /sbin/service httpd restart

got an error SELINUX AVC denial message: SELinux is preventing the httpd from using potentially mislabeled files (./Public).
Allowing Access: You might want to relabel the entire directory using restorecon -R -v './Public'.

[root@webserver ~]# restorecon -R -v './Public'
[root@webserver ~]# /sbin/service httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [FAILED]
Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 281 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
DocumentRoot must be a directory
[FAILED]
[root@webserver ~]#

[Jordanlw]

Remove the / in <Directory />
And put It back to what you were recommended to do earlier.

(Having a slash in a function closes It making </Directory> useless hence the error)