SuSE Linux: Versions up to (including) 6.4
This article refers to an older version of SuSE Linux.
Therefore some of the informations given in this article may
be outdated or the article may contain stale links.
You upgraded different documentation packages from our ftp-server, for example the SDB manually. You are unable to take a look at the internal help system with a webbrowser.
To be compatible to the FHS (filesystem hierarchy standard) the location
of all documentation files has been changed from /usr/doc
to
/usr/share/doc
. The files won't be found by the webserver
apache anymore.
Depending on which components were upgraded by you you should make the
following changes to the file
/etc/httpd/httpd.conf
. You can find the
corrosponding section in this file around line 790.
ServerSignature On Alias /howto/ /usr/doc/howto/ Alias /hilfe/ /usr/doc/susehilf/ Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/ Alias /cgi-bin-sdb/ /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/ Alias /sdb/ /usr/doc/sdb/ Alias /manual/ /usr/doc/packages/apache/manual/into
ServerSignature On Alias /howto/ /usr/share/doc/howto/ Alias /hilfe/ /usr/share/doc/susehilf/ Alias /doc/ /usr/share/doc/ Alias /cgi-bin-sdb/ /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/ Alias /sdb/ /usr/share/doc/sdb/ Alias /manual/ /usr/doc/packages/apache/manual/
After changing this, please reload the web-Server by entering the
command rcapache reload
as user root.
After that the access to the help system and especially the SDB should work without any troubles.
Many thanks to Mr. Eduardo Carriles from Spain for this hint.