I just installed an 8-client LAN in my science classroom at a small K-12
school. All the machines are running Ubuntu Intrepid. I have another
computer on my desk which I'm using as a server. Although I've been a Linux
user for many years, I'm a total newbie when it comes to servers.

I first installed lighttpd for the server, and it's OK except for one thing
which I will describe in the next paragraph. When I saw the freshmeat
announcement of Cherokee 0.99, I decided to give it a look. Although I know
how to edit a config file, I'd rather have a GUI. So now I have Cherokee
doing the serving... but the problem is still there.

The server machine can dual boot to either a Ubuntu or W2K partition, and
there is a third vfat partition that I use for documents and such that I
want available to both OSes. I would like to put the server document root on
this vfat partition, but neither lighttpd nor Cherokee will use it. If I
specify /mnt/extra/www for Cherokee, it gives me a 404 error when I try to
browse there... and there is a good index.html in the folder.

Is there something special that has to be done to enable a separate
partition as the document root? Someone said something about bind, but I
didn't know what they were talking about.

Lane
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