The secret to get it to install is to put: DocumentRoot /var/www/html in the http.conf file. This directive is in the commonhttpd.conf currently. Making this change will get FP to install but I haven't got around to check to see if it will actually work yet.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Blake > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 9:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Cooker] RC1 - mod_frontpage does not work > > > I searched messages on mod_frontpage and see this one is closest to my > experiences. > > I believe the "document root" error is due to the split up of Mandrake's > apache config giles into several sub files. You can > concantenate httpd.conf > and the others into a single dummy config file. Then specify the > dummy file > for the frontpage config filename. > > > > On Sunday 23 September 2001 04:29 pm, you wrote: > > Still no luck getting this to work. I believe it is something within > > mod_frontpage itself not working with the latest apache. > Anybody have any > > luck in getting frontpage extensions on a Mandrake box? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerald Drouillard > > > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 5:39 AM > > > To: Cooker@Linux-Mandrake. Com > > > Subject: [Cooker] RC1 - mod_frontpage does not work > > > > > > > > > I followed the in http://localhost/addon-modules/mod_frontpage.html > > > > > > Here are the parameters and the result: > > > > > > Please enter command: 1) install > > > > > > Please enter server type: 1) apache-fp > > > > > > Enter server config filename: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf > > > > > > Enter host name for multi-hosting []: > > > > > > Enter UNIX username []: gerry > > > > > > Enter UNIX group []: fpwebadmin > > > Web server configuration problem: document root missing from > > > configuration > > > file.
