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16 years ago

Boa configuration

Hi,

When I execute boa I receive an error as:

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[30/Nov/1999:00:14:38 +0000] No such user: root

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I have tried to configure boa but I haven't succeeded . I have changed some parameters of "etc/boa.conf", I Also have inserted some printf's in "config.c" to check if the information that is read is correct.

I have noticed that information that is readed is always the same althought I have modified boa.conf.

This is the correct file to change the configuration of Boa?, or which things I do wrong.

PD: I have a DE2-70 with uclinux MMU

Thanks a lot

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    16 years ago

    Hi,

    I have found two boa.conf, and I have changed the two of them to know what happened.

    The first path is: /nios2-linux/uClinux-dist/romfs/etc/boa.conf

    The second path: /nios2-linux/uClinux-dist/romfs/home/httpd/boa.conf

    I have tried to change user to nobody, to try to avoid this error:

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    [30/Nov/1999:00:14:38 +0000] No such user: root

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    Thanks a lot
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    16 years ago

    I have a running boa (on a No-MMU installation)

    in my /etc/boa there is (comment lines deleted)

    Port 80

    User root

    Group root

    ServerName www.nios2.com (http://www.nios2.com)

    DocumentRoot /home/httpd

    UserDir public_html

    DirectoryIndex index.html

    KeepAliveMax 100

    KeepAliveTimeout 20

    MimeTypes /etc/mime.types

    DefaultType text/html

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/httpd/cgi-bin/

    (www.nios2.com (http://www.nios2.com) seems to be quite irrelevant, I don't have such a thing)

    Moreover I do have a user ftp with no password:

    cat /etc/passwd

    root:$1$9T/VnwvK$ftljw4uPOFUdEHO.v3yh5/:0:0:root:/:/bin/sh

    ftp:x:500:500:FTP User:/home/ftp:

    and a directory /home/ftp for boa to use.

    -Michael
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    16 years ago

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    Hi,

    I have found two boa.conf, and I have changed the two of them to know what happened.

    The first path is: /nios2-linux/uClinux-dist/romfs/etc/boa.conf

    The second path: /nios2-linux/uClinux-dist/romfs/home/httpd/boa.conf

    I have tried to change user to nobody, to try to avoid this error:

    Thanks a lot

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    If you modify either of those, they will get overwritten on build. You should edit the one in your vendor directory e.g. vendors/Altera/common/boa.conf
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    16 years ago

    Hi,

    Many thanks for answers. I have changed the parameter user to nobody, the error:

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    No such user:root

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    has disappeared.

    Althought now has appeared another one :

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    [30/Nov/1999:00:00:15 +0000] ../../boa-0.94.14rc21/src/boa.c:262 (drop_privs) - getpwuid: No such file or directory

    child process exit abnormally.: No such file or directory

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    I will continue searching a solution, and thanks a lot anyway
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    16 years ago

    I had the same problem with you.Now I almost gave up.Maybe boa is impossible to work in Linux on DE2-70...But I wandering that if you found the solutions？

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    16 years ago

    It's very unlikely that this can't work, I use boa happily on a NEEK board (with uClinux NoMMU). Hardware issues should not affect boa in any way.

    -Michael
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    16 years ago

     ../../boa-0.94.14rc21/src/boa.c:262  (drop_privs) - getpwuid: No such file or directory 
child process exit abnormally.: No such file or directory

    Well, it looks that that particular error is due to a missing /etc/passwd file??

    -slacker
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    16 years ago

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    did you try some other web server in linux on DE2-70?

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    I don't have a DE2-70. But as said, hardware should not matter here.

    -Michael