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Old 18th April 2015
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Hi!

I try to set the global chroot option in httpd.conf in openbsd 5.6 as said in the man page (httpd 8) but I get a syntax error.

In httpd.conf:

chroot /chroot/home

Is this option removed or moved anywhere else?

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The man page might not be completely clear. I've just tested and found that while your syntax fails, adding quotation marks, as shown below, is valid.
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chroot "/chroot/home"
I hope this helps.
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Yes, there's no more syntax error message with quotes but the server doesn't start this way. No error message but it doesn't start.

If I comment the chroot line the server works perfectly.

The man page said we can use this option, but how?
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You must provide the infrastructure required by httpd within the chroot. I recommend copying /var/www's directory structure into your /chroot/home -- you'll need a logs directory at minimum, and you may need other structures already found in /var/www. Copying all of them is probably easiest.

You can run httpd in a console with -d, for testing, and you can add one (or more ) -v options to produce debug output.

Just in case you are not already aware of it ... there are reliability (#9) and security (#15) patches for httpd available for 5.6-release.
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Ok, cool. The process starts and the chroot is moved!

Thanks!
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