Apache startup error with symlinked configuration file with 777 permissions
Ubuntu virtual machine with Apache 2.4.7
I'm getting these errors:
apache2: Syntax error on line 216 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/servername.conf: No such file or directory
Action 'configtest' failed.
But there is such a file! In fact, Apache found it all by itself. Line 216, mentioned above, is IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf. So I guess it formed a shell expansion and got the list of conf files and then decided one of them didn't exist. Why?
As everyone knows, in /etc/apache2/conf-enabled are a bunch of symlinks to files in /etc/apache2/conf-available, created with a2enconf.
In my case, servername.conf in conf-available is itself a symlink, pointing to my own set of configuration files (for apache and other services) for setting up virtual machines. For some reason, even though Apache is finding the symlink, it is reporting it doesn't exist. I don't see why it's a problem, since there is another symlink there that phpMyAdmin uses to link to its config files and causes no error.
One difference between the phpMyAdmin file and mine is that my file (and all of its parent directories) has 777 permissions. It is in a shared folder mounted from outside the virtual machine (shared with the Windows 8.1 host).
Does Apache have a problem with 777 permissions in config files?
permissions apache-httpd configuration symlink
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Ubuntu virtual machine with Apache 2.4.7
I'm getting these errors:
apache2: Syntax error on line 216 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/servername.conf: No such file or directory
Action 'configtest' failed.
But there is such a file! In fact, Apache found it all by itself. Line 216, mentioned above, is IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf. So I guess it formed a shell expansion and got the list of conf files and then decided one of them didn't exist. Why?
As everyone knows, in /etc/apache2/conf-enabled are a bunch of symlinks to files in /etc/apache2/conf-available, created with a2enconf.
In my case, servername.conf in conf-available is itself a symlink, pointing to my own set of configuration files (for apache and other services) for setting up virtual machines. For some reason, even though Apache is finding the symlink, it is reporting it doesn't exist. I don't see why it's a problem, since there is another symlink there that phpMyAdmin uses to link to its config files and causes no error.
One difference between the phpMyAdmin file and mine is that my file (and all of its parent directories) has 777 permissions. It is in a shared folder mounted from outside the virtual machine (shared with the Windows 8.1 host).
Does Apache have a problem with 777 permissions in config files?
permissions apache-httpd configuration symlink
asked 6 mins ago
Buttle ButkusButtle Butkus
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Ubuntu virtual machine with Apache 2.4.7
I'm getting these errors:
apache2: Syntax error on line 216 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/servername.conf: No such file or directory
Action 'configtest' failed.
But there is such a file! In fact, Apache found it all by itself. Line 216, mentioned above, is IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf. So I guess it formed a shell expansion and got the list of conf files and then decided one of them didn't exist. Why?
As everyone knows, in /etc/apache2/conf-enabled are a bunch of symlinks to files in /etc/apache2/conf-available, created with a2enconf.
In my case, servername.conf in conf-available is itself a symlink, pointing to my own set of configuration files (for apache and other services) for setting up virtual machines. For some reason, even though Apache is finding the symlink, it is reporting it doesn't exist. I don't see why it's a problem, since there is another symlink there that phpMyAdmin uses to link to its config files and causes no error.
One difference between the phpMyAdmin file and mine is that my file (and all of its parent directories) has 777 permissions. It is in a shared folder mounted from outside the virtual machine (shared with the Windows 8.1 host).
Does Apache have a problem with 777 permissions in config files?
permissions apache-httpd configuration symlink
asked 6 mins ago
Buttle ButkusButtle Butkus
17118
Ubuntu virtual machine with Apache 2.4.7
I'm getting these errors:
apache2: Syntax error on line 216 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/servername.conf: No such file or directory
Action 'configtest' failed.
But there is such a file! In fact, Apache found it all by itself. Line 216, mentioned above, is IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf. So I guess it formed a shell expansion and got the list of conf files and then decided one of them didn't exist. Why?
As everyone knows, in /etc/apache2/conf-enabled are a bunch of symlinks to files in /etc/apache2/conf-available, created with a2enconf.
In my case, servername.conf in conf-available is itself a symlink, pointing to my own set of configuration files (for apache and other services) for setting up virtual machines. For some reason, even though Apache is finding the symlink, it is reporting it doesn't exist. I don't see why it's a problem, since there is another symlink there that phpMyAdmin uses to link to its config files and causes no error.
One difference between the phpMyAdmin file and mine is that my file (and all of its parent directories) has 777 permissions. It is in a shared folder mounted from outside the virtual machine (shared with the Windows 8.1 host).
Does Apache have a problem with 777 permissions in config files?
permissions apache-httpd configuration symlink
permissions apache-httpd configuration symlink
asked 6 mins ago
Buttle ButkusButtle Butkus
17118
asked 6 mins ago
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