[mod-security-users] Re: DocumentRoot path

[Julius S. <us...@zg...>]

Alex wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 22:52 +0200, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>I'm trying to chroot my Apache 2 server.
>>I've added this to my httpd.conf:
>># mod_security stuff
>>SecChrootDir /chroot/apache
>>
>>And I moved the directory /var/www to /chroot/apache/var/www
>>
>>When I try to start Apache, I now get the following error message though:
>>Starting httpd daemon:  /usr/sbin/apachectl start
>>Syntax error on line 357 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:
>>DocumentRoot must be a directory
>>
>>Am I doing something wrong? I would expect I would only need to specify 
>>the path within the chroot environment. Do I need to specify the full 
>>path instead?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Julius
>>
> 
> 
> Just do : ln -s /chroot/apache/var/www /var/www
> 
> It should be working after that
> 
> Alex V

I understand. Is there any way to check then if it really is chrooted?
This also seems to be a work-around. Is this known problem with 
mod_security?

Julius