Lane Lester wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Cherokee mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee > Make sure that the user the web server runs under (usually www-data) has read permission on /mnt/extra/www.
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