Hi ,

I am in the process of migrating my old server into new Linux new server. As part of the , apache configuraton is one of the process . i have installed http with yum. i added some test dir like /date/test underwhich i created one test.html. When i start apache , it says

Starting httpd: Warning: DocumentRoot [/data/test] does not exist
i am not sure about it. I have directory exists. however it shows the error message.
Apache version
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httpd-devel-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3
httpd-devel-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3
httpd-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3
httpd-manual-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.3
Centos Version :
CentOS release 5.5 (Final)

Uname -r
2.6.18-194.32.1.el5
NameVirtualHost ipaddress:80
<VirtualHost ipaddress:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot /data/test
ServerName portal-migration
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

Can anyone pls help me this out ?
Thanks

Are you running selinux?

If enforcing, install setroubleshootd or if it is already installed check /var/log/messages for the sealert command suggestion.

Thanks for the infor
I ran
system-config-securitylevel-tui

and disabled selinux

after this setting , it didnot show the error mesaages.

I am windering what is the selinux setting ?

selinux controls what files and directories applications can access using contexts. Much like you would not want the apache user to be able to read /etc/shadow in the event that something was mis-configured in the web server.

You can check contexts by using ls -lZ and modify them with the chcon command