Hi all,

I just installed Apache 1.3.37 on Ubuntu 6.06 minimal. It is in a chroot jail, along with PHP (and MySQL is in another chroot jail). I copied over the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files and they're in the jail, and I removed all of the other options. I am getting the "bad user name apache" error. Here is my etc/passwd file:

pwchk doesn't come up with any errors on this, so I know it's okay.

Here's the group file.

As far as I can tell, everything is okay, but for some reason, Apache doesn't want to start up. I am trying to start it up via the "chroot /chroot/apache /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd" command.

Thank you,

Splenden

if apache is to listen on port 80 you have to run it as root. If you dont want to run it as root change the port in httpd.conf (but maybe im wrong - dont know whether chrooting changes that) i guess u better use /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start to start the server anyway
is there a user apache on your system?

I am running it as root using the chroot command (which runs it as the current user - which is root). chrootuid changes the user to run it, so I'm not using that due to the 1024 port limitation.

As shown in my passwd and group file, there is a user apache on my system. It exists in both my true /etc/passwd and /etc/group and the one on the chroot.

Thank you,

Splenden

I've ruled it out to something inside the chroot jail itself. Apache starts up fine whenever I try to start it up without the chroot jail limitation, and when I do so, it serves pages fine, too.

Permissions are being worked on. I made everything the permissions of the real /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow and it still throws the bad user name error for some reason. I also removed the user name and it threw a bad group name error. It seems like it can't read /etc/passwd or /etc/group.

Splenden

Solved.

The problem was, I was missing a library. I did an strace and found the missing library that I didn't find via ldd and put it on the chroot, and it works now.