Please help.

I have installed RedHat 9 and its Apache as root user. There is no problem for me to start the Apache.

However, when I want to run the Apache as a normal user (./httpd start), I have the following error messages:
....libexpat.so.1...is not shared...file not found

I only have libexpat.so.0.4.0 in my system.

So I link the libexpat.so.0.4.0 to libexpat.so.1.
But, this time it give me another error message:
libc.so.6 .....not found

The expat in my system is 1.95.5.

Can someone help me, please.

Thanks.

Boring

How are you trying to start apache as a normal user? The way it is supposed to be done is by specifying the user and group in httpd.conf (at least with Apache 1.3, Apache 2 may be slightly different). You then start apache as root and apache switches the listening processes to the normal user.

By the way, if you are going to expose this box to the Internet, you are SERIOUSLY going to want to look at a more modern distro. RH9 hasn't been supported for quite some time and there are going to be some nasty security issues that a more modern distro will have already solved.

Thanks.

The reason that I want to start the Apache as a normal user is because I want to test my home page.

Are there some ways to test me home page as a normal user?

Will it cause any problem if I test my home page as a root user?


Please advise.

Thanks

Boring

You need to edit your httpd.conf and make sure that the Userdir section is enabled and the user directory is set to public_html. Once thats done, create a directory called public_html in your home directory and give it permissions of 755. To access your webpages you would then do something like http://localhost/~userid/page.html. Apache still has to be started by root.

Redhat 9 reached its end of life last year, so Redhat no longer provides updates and support for it. You ought to think of using Fedora Core, RHEL or CentOS because they are still being activley developed and recieving security upgrades.

Thanks.
I will try that.

Boring