From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 21 3: 1:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [192.216.136.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD8414EBE for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 03:01:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: (from shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA15094; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:00:23 GMT Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:00:23 +0000 From: Shawn Ramsey To: Ludwig Pummer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc Message-ID: <19990821100023.A10092@cpl.net> References: <19990820210946.G638@cpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Ludwig Pummer on Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 02:26:03AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Does anyone know what may have been the problem, > > or what file(s) the web server needs? The Apache error_log had this to say > > when attempting access to my (or any) user directory : > > > > [Fri Aug 20 19:10:19 1999] [error] [client 192.216.87.249] File does not > > exist: /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/cpl-dev/~shawn > > > > Which makes no sence, because my home directory is in /disk6/shawn ....... > > (symlinked from /home, but I don't think that matters) > > But how does Apache know that your home directory is /disk6/shawn if > there's no [accessible] /etc/passwd to look it up in ? :) Yup. :) I should have figured that out... But it also needs access to pwd.db. Why is that? I wouldn't think the webserver could read or understand that file. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message