[OpenAFS] dynroot question

Erik Dalén dalen@socialisterna.org
Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:44:10 +0200


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 16:00, Jack Neely<jjneely@pams.ncsu.edu> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm having an issue with the dynroot functionality on my web servers.
> I've straced the httpd process and discovered that it is attempting to
> stat() /afs/.htaccess which, of course, doesn't exist.  The problem
> being that AFS takes 10 to 20 seconds or more to return the stat call.
>
> The problem comes and goes.  I'm not exactly sure what is triggering it
> and would like some help figuring that out.
>
> We're running 1.4.10 client side and the servers with the web volumes
> are 1.4.7 and 1.4.10.  We are in the process of moving everything to
> 1.4.11 but wanted to try to track down this issue.
>
> Turning dynroot off, of course, fixes the issue.
>

Another fix would be to use:

<Directory /afs>
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

in your apache config file. Then it will not even try to read the
.htaccess file in that directory (or any subdirectory, so you might
want to enable overrides for some subdirectories in your own cell.)

-- 
Erik Dalén