Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:10:13 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Doug Young <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> Cc: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Apache Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102201605310.67496-100000@java2.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <011401c09b85$1498fca0$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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On Feb 21, Doug Young wrote: >I had what sounds exactly the same problem a while back .... hours & hours >of tearing hair out later I stumbled across the solution. For some reason >beyond me, the default data directory in apache points to a symlink, & >apparently that is critical and must be left intact even though httpd.conf >points to the actual data files elsewhere. I'd deleted that inadvertently >without realizing it was critical, hence the error 404. Maybe someone more >knowledgable than me understands more about the issue .... as always there >isn't anything obvious in the docs about the symlink. I "borrowed" a number >of httpd.confs without making the slightest difference ... it was only by >reinstalling Apache completely that the problem was resolved. There is no "magic" symlink in a basic apache install. The system you were working on must have been modified. Unless you mean the /home -> /usr/home symlink that FreeBSD uses, deleting /home would certainly break DocumentRoot /home/www In httpd.conf just point DocumentRoot at the /full/path to your html documents. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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