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
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Make sure that the user the web server runs under (usually www-data) has 
read permission on /mnt/extra/www.

A.
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