Boa configuration

[Altera_Forum]

Hi, 

 When I execute boa I receive an error as:     --- Quote Start ---   [30/Nov/1999:00:14:38 +0000] No such user: root  --- Quote End ---    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

[Altera_Forum]

Where is the file that you are modifying?

[Altera_Forum]

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:      --- Quote Start ---  [30/Nov/1999:00:14:38 +0000] No such user: root  --- Quote End ---     Thanks a lot

[Altera_Forum]

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

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  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  --- Quote End ---   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

[Altera_Forum]

Hi, 

 Many thanks for answers. I have changed the parameter user to nobody, the error:   --- Quote Start ---  No such user:root  --- Quote End ---   has disappeared.   Althought now has appeared another one :   --- Quote Start ---   [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   --- Quote End ---  I will continue searching a solution, and thanks a lot anyway

[Altera_Forum]

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？

[Altera_Forum]

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

[Altera_Forum]

Boa can work well in uClinux.So did you try some other web server in linux on DE2-70?

[Altera_Forum]

../../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

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  did you try some other web server in linux on DE2-70?  --- Quote End ---  I don't have a DE2-70. But as said, hardware should not matter here.   -Michael

[Altera_Forum]

Hi, 

 I haven't solutioned that problem I gave up.   But the other day I found a post about this theme. It suggested to comment two lines of code(Lines that give the error). These lines are relationed with ethernet's security, so boa can run without them. I don't know if it goes, I have to prove it during this week.  In /src/boa.c in function drop_privs, comment these lines:   DIE("getpwuid"); DIE("initgroups"); Please keep inform if you find the solution for this trouble, I also will try it.  Thanks

[Altera_Forum]

Hi, 

 I have tested what I have said in my last post and it didn't go. Then appeared different errors