Re: Running inside a chroot

On 13/11/2007, Janusz Gumkowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looking at your directory tree, you should add:
>                 Control {
>                         Alias /
>                         Location /
>                 }
> inside Virtual{} block.

Thanks - that's what I was missing.

> Actually, I don't really think this is what you want, because the above will
> serve your whole chroot() tree to the world, including /etc and log files.
> Storing html files in a specified directory (say: /html) will definitely be
> a better choice:  Alias /    Location /html

As it turns out, it's not only better because of that separation -
it's better because specifying a location of "/" causes Mathopd to
respond with 404 errors, even for valid requests!  This appears to be
a bug.  I have now got things working, and I observe the following
behaiour (Mathopd v1.5p5, Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty), 2.6.20 kernel) using
the config file you posted:

  Location set to "/html" - works fine, as you demonstrated.

  Location set to "/" - gives me nothing but 404 Not Found errors

  Location set to "/." - works fine, if you did want to serve the root
directory.

Does anyone else get this behaviour?

Once again, thanks again for your help getting this working!

Paul.

> # cat mathopd.conf
> User www
> StayRoot Off
> RootDirectory /test
>
> Log /access.log
> ErrorLog /error.log
> Control {
>        Types {
>                text/html { * }
>         }
>         IndexNames      { index.html }
> }
>
> Server {
>        Port 80
>        Address 0.0.0.0
>        Virtual {
>                 AnyHost
>                 Control {
>                         Alias /
>                         Location /html
>                 }
>        }
> }