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#1 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 07:05 AM

Have installed OpenBSD for the first time and found it relatively
painless. But the aim of the exercise is to establish a)A spare
webserver go hold my webpages until I have established a new permanent
server - which probably also will be OpenBSD. and b) Learn enough
about OpenBSD to do the switch mentioned ablove.

The problem(or maybe the "challenge") is that I allocated to little
space for /var. When I got Apache operational it went well until /var
was full. There is plenty room on my /home partition so I moved all my
webpages to /home/www/htdocs.

First I tried to make a symlink to this directory, but only got " --
not found on this server" when trying it out.

Then I changed the httpd.conf to "DocumentRoot "/home/www/htdocs" ",
but still no luck.

Can somebody please point my nose in the right direction? What am I
overlooking? Under Linux changing DocumentRoot worked.

Anders

#2 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 07:05 AM

On 2005-12-17, Anders Normann <sjefen@andnorm.net> wrote:
>
> The problem(or maybe the "challenge") is that I allocated to little
> space for /var. When I got Apache operational it went well until /var
> was full. There is plenty room on my /home partition so I moved all my
> webpages to /home/www/htdocs.

If you still can afford it right now, split the home partition
into two partitions. One for /home and one for
/var/www - of course, this means you need to backup your
existing /home to somewhere else, because you need to
delete it in this process.
See disklabel(8) and look for -E and read
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html

> Can somebody please point my nose in the right direction? What am I
> overlooking? Under Linux changing DocumentRoot worked.

You are overlooking that apache is chrooted:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot

Andreas

#3 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 07:05 AM

Anders Normann wrote:

> Then I changed the httpd.conf to "DocumentRoot "/home/www/htdocs" ",
> but still no luck.

OpenBSD starts chrooted by default, so you set your DocumentRoot actually
to /var/www/home/www/htdocs.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot

#4 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 07:05 AM

On 17 Dec 2005 22:39:09 GMT, Andreas Schweitzer
<aschweitzer@hs.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:

>On 2005-12-17, Anders Normann <sjefen@andnorm.net> wrote:
>>
>> The problem(or maybe the "challenge") is that I allocated to little
>> space for /var. When I got Apache operational it went well until /var
>> was full. There is plenty room on my /home partition so I moved all my
>> webpages to /home/www/htdocs.
>
>If you still can afford it right now, split the home partition
>into two partitions. One for /home and one for
>/var/www - of course, this means you need to backup your
>existing /home to somewhere else, because you need to
>delete it in this process.
>See disklabel(8) and look for -E and read
>http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html

This was what I was looking for, but I messed things up and ended up
doing a reinstall. Except for the web-pages there wasn't much to lose
anyway. After reinstall I have a lot of room in my /var/www partition
and after some tinkering I'm able to ftp up my webpages, and they
show up, at least on my local net. Next task is to bring them on to
the Internet, but that only involves an change to the forwarding of
ports on my router so it should be no sweat.
>
>> Can somebody please point my nose in the right direction? What am I
>> overlooking? Under Linux changing DocumentRoot worked.
>
>You are overlooking that apache is chrooted:
>http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot
>
Yes, that is what I did. Had read about it, but completely forgot when
trying to apply my newly aquired knowledge.
>Andreas

Thank you for the assistance. It is always nice to get a nudge in the
right direction.

Anders

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