Re: mod_chroot with Apache 2 and Debian Sarge (Kernel 2.6.x)

John Gager napisał(a):

> The documentation for getting mod_chroot to work with a Debian Apache 
> 2 install is almost nil to none. Even the documentation that comes 
> with the Debian install of libapache2-mod-chroot is pretty thin.
Please be more specific. What part of 
http://core.segfault.pl/~hobbit/mod_chroot/install.html and 
http://core.segfault.pl/~hobbit/mod_chroot/apache20.html (also included 
in the distribution, as INSTALL and README.Apache20 AFAIR) did you find 
unsufficient? I really need users' opinion about the documentation, it 
definitely could be improved, but I need specific information - what 
were you looking for and how did the documentation fail to answer your 
question?

> After messing around with the apache2.pid symbolic links, I think I’ve 
> finally gotten it to run. However, when I go to the Apache2 default 
> page with:
>
> DocumentRoot /
>
> I get a “Forbidden – You don’t have permission to access / on this 
> server” error.
>
> So how do I correct that?
What do the logs say? Either you got your permissions wrong (check the 
permissions for every directory in the path to DocumentRoot, relative 
from ChrootDir) or you just don't have index.html in DocumentRoot and 
automatic directory indices are not enabled.

> And just exactly where should the DocumentRoot directive be placed for 
> a mod_chrooted environment? In the apache2.conf file, or the virtual 
> host file in the “sites-available” directory?
This is clearly stated in INSTALL. You can't place DocumentRoot inside 
VirtualHost, it has to go to the main section of apache2.conf in your case.

HtH,
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Marek Gutkowski