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Title: Apache on OZ 3.2
Post by: omro on June 02, 2004, 11:53:49 am

Hi guys,

I\'ve got OZ 3.2 on my Z5500.

I\'ve migrated the opt, home and root directories as suggested in this site:

 http://www.linux-migration.org (http://www.linux-migration.org)

I\'ve installed the apache-1.3.27-php-4.2.3_0.1_arm.ipk successfully.

When I go to start apache I get the following:

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# /home/www/bin/httpd start

httpd: bad group name nobody

So it\'s not starting up  :cry:

Does anyone know if this is fixable?

Thanks,

Owen

Title: Apache on OZ 3.2
Post by: EasyKill on June 02, 2004, 12:25:35 pm

I know absolutely nothing about the Zaurus, as a matter of fact my first Zaurus is being shipped to me right now (at least it better be!!). I would guess from my thin knowledge of linux that apache is running under nobody and the Zaurus doesn\'t have that group. you could do a groupadd nobody (maybe a useradd nobody as well and add nobody to the group nobody) or you could use apache2 which runs under root.

Title: Apache on OZ 3.2
Post by: omro on June 04, 2004, 05:29:56 am

I have to admit a little bit of confusion about reply that sorry :-(

Title: Apache on OZ 3.2
Post by: EasyKill on June 07, 2004, 12:00:39 am

Looking back at my response, it was a pretty lousy explanation. Bring up a console, type in \'su -\' without the quotes and then enter the root password. Then type \'groupadd nobody\' again without the quotes. This might help, and it might not. I don\'t see how it could cause any problems so you have nothing to lose.

Title: Apache on OZ 3.2
Post by: al on June 07, 2004, 02:01:33 am

Edit your httpd.conf file and search for \"nobody\". I can\'t remember exactly what the entry is but I changed it from nobody to nogroup and it worked for me.

Title: Apache on OZ 3.2
Post by: omro on June 07, 2004, 11:02:59 am

OK, did that, httpd is running, but when I try and point the web browser at the index page, nothing is found, it times out. I tried pinging 127.0.0.1 and there was 100% package loss.

Because I\'ve moved the home directory onto the SD card, do I need to do anything in addition? Or is it simply because I\'m running OZ3.2?

Title: Apache on OZ 3.2
Post by: omro on June 08, 2004, 04:48:54 am

Is it possible that because I\'ve moved everything onto the SD card, the system doesn\'t know where the htdocs directory is anymore? If that\'s the case, how would I con the system into thinking that the apache server is where it thinks it should be and not on the SD card where it doesn\'t think it should be?