Bug#620759: apache2: apache does chroot twice with mod_chroot

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

On Monday 04 April 2011, Stephan Goll wrote:
> I have apache2 running chrooted in /var/www since lenny. After
> upgrading to squeeze I got permanent errors about not finding
> /var. After all I tried and copied and hoped to find it out and
> finally I created a var in /var/www/var/www and apache did not
> complain anymore. So I guess the apache father does chroot into
> /var/www and every child does chroot into the chrootet /var/www
> again (and this is really /var/www/var/www). This is really
> strange and surely a bug.

The apache2 core includes now a "Chroot" directive which probably 
clashes with mod_chroot. Please try without mod_chroot. It is possible 
that you may have to adjust your configuration, please see the apache2 
docs. I am not familiar with mod_chroot myself.