Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 16:52:07 -0700 From: "Neil C. Jensen" <njensen@salsa.habaneros.com> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Apache 1.1.1 and 'lost' files Message-ID: <01BB8092.F5A78E40@jalapeno.habaneros.com>
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I'm not sure if this is an OS problem or a problem with Apache..... System: FreeBSD 2.1.5.R Apache 1.1.1 PHP 2.0b3 module SSleay 0.62 module I had the above configuration running great for over a week without any problems. Inexplicably, the server seemed to lose the documents and produce "File not found". The access_log just started producing lots of 404s while the error_log produced lots of "access to /usr/home/fininfo failed for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, reason: File does not exist". These results were consistent for the root server and two virtual domains. They were also consistent regardless of browser (Lynx,Mosaic,NS,MSIE). One interesting point is that all DocumentRoots were specified as "/home/name/htdocs" (which was where the documents really were). However, the error_log always showed "access to /home/name failed". For some reason the 'htdocs' was left off the error_log. I don't know if this is just a quirk of the logging or perhaps a hint to why things are failing. I checked the following just to make sure nothing had changed from the working configuration: - all file locations, permisssions, etc. - httpd.conf file still pointing to correct places - fsck'd the file system - ok - all system logs (don't think anyone hacked in) - all files could still be read and edited. I also re-compiled the system with only Apache 1.1.1 and no modules and the problem persisted. I even reinstalled 1.0.5 and the problem still persisted! To solve the problem, I copied all the files from the /home/name/htdocs directories into directories in the base apache htdocs directory and modified the httpd.conf file and it worked! I don't know why. Just to re-stress the point: This was a working system; nothing was changed before the problem started. I have also had 1.0.5 running for quite some time without problems. Does anybody have any clues or suggestions to where I should look next? Neil Jensen Habanero Studios Ltd.
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