Ubuntu Server mod_chroot Apache2 Problem

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Published on 2010-02-21T20:29:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/30 15:58 UTC
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Hello,

I am trying to make it so my apache web pages will be in a chroot jail. I have set up my chroot jail as according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ModChroot. However when i restart apache i get the following error logged:

[error] No such file or directory: could not create /var/chroot/apache/var/run/apache2.pid [error] apache2: could not log pid to file /var/chroot/apache/var/run/apache2.pid

/var/chroot/apache/var/run/apache2.pid is there with 777 permissions

If i dissable mod_chroot web pages are delivered correctly from the /var/chroot/apache/var/www directory.

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