I’m trying to set up a virtual machine (vmware workstation 8.0.2) running CentOS 6.2 (i386) to mirror my live server so I can work locally. I’m running Windows 7 64bit. I have installed CentOS, PHP & MySQL they all seem to be running fine.
I now need to get it to access my files on the windows machine. I’ve installed the VMware tools and can now see the shared folder in /mnt/hgfs/Work/. I now need to point apache to the files here so it can use them, to do this I edited httpd.conf from:
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
to
DocumentRoot "/mnt/hgfs" (also tried DocumentRoot "/mnt/hgfs/Work")
when I restart apache it fails and I get:
Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 293 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
DocumentRoot must be a directory
I’ve used Linux, but not very often so it’s probably something obvious I’ve missed, I’d really appreciate any help on this.
Check that you are not having trouble with SELinux, which is enforcing by default on CentOS 6.
You can either disable it by editing /etc/selinux/config or read up on it here
http://rackerhacker.com/2012/01/25/getting-started-with-selinux/