I’m trying to install the FrontPage extentions again:
Getting User from /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Unix user name of the owner of this new web: [apache] frontpag
Getting Group from /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Unix group of this new web: [apache] frontpag
Installing root web into port 80…
installing server / on port 80
Will chown web to frontpag as part of install.
Will chgrp web to frontpag as part of install.
Error: FrontPage requires that the AllowOverride option be set to something other than “None” (typically set in access.conf). “All” is the preferred AllowOverride option for the document root.
ERROR: / installation failed.
Hit enter to continue
Exiting due to an error! Please fix the error and try again.
[root@centos version5.0]#
What can I safely set AllowOverride to?
Also, I don’t have an access.conf file but I Do have this listed in several places in httpd.conf Whuch should I change?
Can I add an allow override value to an existing domain.tld.conf file and then specify that where it asks for the server conf file instead of httpd.conf since ideally I’d only like to make this change to domains absolutely I have to?
When I give it an individual conf file frontpage.transwarphosting.net.conf in this case, it ignores it. I am assuming it is looking for the AllowOverride value.
Tim
PS I am documenting what I am doing and intend to share when/if I get them working
Are you saying you tried editing the frontpage.transwarphosting.net.conf vhost and put the AllowOverride All in there, and it still didn’t work? Even after restarting Apache?
My initial guess would be, that should make it happy when you go to install the extentions.
add an access.conf file with that in it (and where)
add it to the frontpage.transwarphosting.net.conf file
(sorry this wasn’t clear)
Also should I use “All” or “Limit” or something else; the FP script just says I can’t use None
Part of what is confusing is that it is asking for the “server config file” not site config file and I am creating the “root web” that FP needs. I’m not sure if I can have more than one root web.
Ideally I’d add a root web in /home/ or /etc/www/html/ and create the subwebs elsewhere, but for now I just want to get it working. The domain I listed here was created for the sole purpose of testing this install.
When I got this working before I only needed it for one site so I never went further with it. Now that I get into it again I thiink the AllowOverride was the problem before, but I’m not sure how I fixed it.
to several places in the frontpage.transwarphosting.net.conf file and every time I run a config test I get the errors:
[root@centos version5.0]# service httpd configtest
Syntax error on line 11 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/frontpage.transwarphosting.net.conf:
AllowOverride not allowed here
[root@centos version5.0]# service httpd configtest
Syntax error on line 5 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/frontpage.transwarphosting.net.conf:
AllowOverride not allowed here
[root@centos version5.0]# service httpd configtest
Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/frontpage.transwarphosting.net.conf:
AllowOverride not allowed here
[root@centos version5.0]#
Is there a specific place I should add it or do I need to add more than that simple statelement?
I tried it editing the main httpd.conf file and had some success (ran into another error) and am not sure I like changing this globally.
I assume the None is inthere for a reason (security).
Gotta get some sleep now, but wil look at it again in a day or two, any further thoughs are welcome.
I don’t feel too bad having problems here, I understand the Allmanaged team tried this for a client and gave up. If I get this working, I’ll send them my notes.
I trued doing thos by changint it globally and installint the “root web” as the default in the httpd.conf file byt ran into problems with setting up “new sub/per-user webs” because the values set in httpd.conf did not make sense to the script, but that’s okay.
Then I tried setting subwebs ans ran into problems there: if I use httpd.conf as the server config file it says the subweb I tried to set up is invalid (I assume since it’s not defined as a virtual web in that file. If I use frontpage.transwarphosting.net.conf then it ignores it as a config file just as before since (I assume) it does not have the AllowOverride value specified. I guess it’s back to finding a way to put that in there that will not be rejected by apache during a configtest.
Will chown web to frontpag as part of install.
Will chgrp web to frontpag as part of install.
Error: ‘/home/frontpag/frontpage.transwarphosting.net/html:80’ server is not a valid virtual server.
ERROR: / installation failed.
It still ignores it when I specify frontpage.transwarphosting.net as the server config file in the subweb section and I get the above from using httpd.conf
Any other ideas? what else should I add to the virtual file to make it detected as a server conf file.
This is what it spit at me when I originally tried to create a user/subweb:
Install new sub/per-user webs now (y/n) [Y]? y
Using FrontPage Configuration File: /usr/local/frontpage/we80.cnf
Getting DocumentRoot and UserDir.
Getting resource configuration file
Directive ResourceConfig not found.
Getting DocumentRoot from /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Getting UserDir from /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
does not exist!/htdocs"
ERROR: Unable to get DocumentRoot/UserDir
What parts should I /could I add without causing problems? Not sure how to use this on a virtual host; ideally i’d dump the idea of a userdir alltogether and give all users access to the root of the site:
Just to update anybody who may be wondering how this is going. I didn’t get a chance to work onthis on Sunday like I wanted but it’s something I am still doing. I am doing some apache research to see what I should add to the domain.tld.conf file to make nice wth apache (see the previous post). I’ll keep you informed.
