Friday, March 27, 2009
I swear I heard someone once say that control panels supposedly made things easier
Sigh.
Just received the following ticket:
Client uploaded their own work on the site and need to change the document root for the domain: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Please set it from “/var/www/html/” to “/var/www/html/app/webroot/”
The site is on: XXXXXX
No problem, right? Just go into the Apache configuration file and change
DocumentRoot for the virtual domain in question. Trivial.
Only, the server the site is on has a <shudder> control panel on it, and whenever there is a <shudder> control panel involved, even the most trivial of changes suddenly involves rocket science [I thought I wrote about redirects involving a control panel, but I've yet to find an entry that does. Guess what's coming up next? —Sean]
Just for laughs, I decided to change DocumentRoot on the
virtual site in question and make a change via the <shudder>
control panel and just as I expected, my changes did not survive
Insipid's mucking about.
A few searches revealed this bit of wisdom:
The following FAQ discusses how you can change httpd.conf on a per-site basis or globally such that the changes are not wiped out by XXXXXXXXXXX.
http://www.XXXXXXXXX/support/wpls/faqs/3.6.html
Wonderful! I thought. That's exactly what I need. I click on the link—
404
Oh, lovely I thought. I check the date on the answer I found, and
it's dated July 8th, 2002. I guess Insipid doesn't
quite realize that cool URLs don't change.
So, I go to the Insipid site and try searching on “FAQ”. The results of
that search were:
404
But I was at some subdomain of the Insipid site. Okay, I went
to the main page, searched for “FAQ” and got much better results. Apparently, the
Insipid subdomain uses some now dead search engine, while the
main Insipid site uses Google. Ah, I see a link labeled
“Insipid Forum—FAQ” and click that.
I'm right back at the main Insipid page. Brilliant! Instead
of serving up a “Page Not Found” page, they simply redirect to the main
page. Wunderbar!
Poking around some more, it seems that the inspired leadership at
Insipid has felt that there is no longer any need for any
forums at their site, and thus, it's gone. I keep getting the main
page.
So far, my searches have lead to pages that are either missing, or
selling support, or are simply nothing more than link farms—ah wait! It
seems Insipid was bought out by the company Perpendicular.
Okay, try their site and look for “Insipid FAQ”.
And nothing that will help me.
Oh wait, this seems promising:
Document Root Problem with Ensim
February 8, 2006
I am trying to point the default
/var/www/htmlfolder to a subfolder of the site. I am trying to acomplish this by doing the following:
# pico /etc/httpd/conf/virtual/siteXX<VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:80> ServerName XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX ServerAdmin me@mysite.com DocumentRoot /home/virtual/siteXX/fst/var/www/html/toanother/folder RewriteEngine on
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restartAfter Apache restarts I am placed in the new folder structure, but the PHP code on the page is not being parsed.
I am at a loss as to what the problem may be. Any help is appreciated.
Okay … where are the answers? Answers? Um … answers? Nothing on that page. Go up one level, find the link to that page, and see “Replies: 0”.
Well XXXX! In three years no one has answered this person's cry for help!
On a lark, I decided to try the following:
GenericRootPrompt# ls -l total 20 total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 admin229 admin229 4096 May 27 2008 cgi-bin drwxr-xr-x 9 admin229 admin229 4096 Mar 25 01:06 html drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 2008 icons drwxr-xr-x 2 admin229 admin229 4096 May 27 2008 interpreters drwxr-xr-x 2 admin229 admin229 4096 May 27 2008 usage GenericRootPrompt# mv html html.orig GenericGootPrompt# ln -s html.orig/app/webroot/ html GenericRootPrmopt# ls -l total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 admin229 admin229 4096 May 27 2008 cgi-bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 27 16:19 html -> html.orig/app/webroot/ drwxr-xr-x 9 admin229 admin229 4096 Mar 25 01:06 html.orig drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 2008 icons drwxr-xr-x 2 admin229 admin229 4096 May 27 2008 interpreters drwxr-xr-x 2 admin229 admin229 4096 May 27 2008 usage GenericRootPrompt#
It was a nice try, but it didn't work.
Can somebody remind me why we're using control panels?
