> Ok, I thought I'd toss this one out there as I'm having trouble > sorting it out. > > Configuration: FC1, 2.4.22-1.2188nptlsmp, 2GB, Apache 1.3.29/PHP 4.3.6 > Weirdness: Everything is installed in /usr/local/test (including > libraries, configs, document roots, cgi-bin, the lot). Apache runs > fine from there, serves pages and works perfectly. > > When the contents of /usr/local/test are copied to an NFS volume which > is then mounted at /usr/local/test, apache runs but will not serve > pages. Apache's error log shows:
> (13)Permission denied: access to / failed because search permissions > are missing on a component of the path
> Again, the EXACT CODE is used (via a "cp -a"). Ownership and > permissions are fine (trust me, I've checked). Has anyone seen this > behaviour? Care to clue me in? Is Fedora doing something, uh, > "special" in its NFS handling? Apache's message is misleading at > best.
Weird. I figured it out, but it sure doesn't make sense. The mountpoint was set 755, but the NFS mount wouldn't allow an unprivileged user to traverse the tree. If I unmounted it, changed the mountpoint to 777 and remounted, all is well.
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