thanks and cache & conf problems

Harry Barshatzky (harry@cs.cornell.edu)
Mon, 17 Oct 1994 22:57:52 +0100

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 22:57:52 +0100
Message-Id: <9410171821.AA20945@gidney.cs.cornell.edu>
From: Harry Barshatzky <harry@cs.cornell.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-proxy@www0.cern.ch>
Subject: thanks and cache & conf problems

First, thanks to those who responded to my last post regarding missing
icons via proxy. The problem was multi-faceted, but seemed to revolve
aound the exact definitiion of (or lack thereof) "ServerRoot". A few
hours of watching the server operating with -vv mode helped too.

Which conveniently leads to my next problem(s).

o Here is an exerpt from the very verbose output of my httpd:

Caching..... off
CacheRoot... ignored (caching is off)

However, the following exerpt from the the conf file shows

Caching On
CacheRoot /vol/info/www/Httpd/Cache
CacheSize 50 M

that the Cache is *explicitly* being turned on.

It appears that the entire configuration file may not be being
read.(?). As a matter of fact, the server thinks that the Cache is
off, regardless of the state of the "Cache" directives, or whether
the "Cache" directive is present at all. This is *wrong*.

o The thought that the entire conf file is not being read also comes
to mind when I consider the definition of ServerRoot. Can't this be
defined at will by the administrator, or does it mean a very specific
thing, ie, the actual location of httpd or somehting like that?

I have the following in my conf file

ServerRoot /vol/info/www/Httpd

but the -vv output says

ServerRoot.. /vol/info/www/Httpd/Daemon

which is the actual location of httpd. What is going on?

Thanks SO much for your assistance in helping me iron out my problems
with my caching proxy. -- Harry

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