Hi all,
I am new to this list and also a newbie on apache :-((
I just want to ask on how can I serve pages while running as a root. I know this is a big security risk, but i really need to run as a root. ex. create a user, etc...modify the sudoers file still no success.
i found another of this in the list last month but there are no answers.
I change the user to root in httpd.conf and restart the service. "Error, apache has not been designed to run as a root... If you still desire, add -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE to the EXTRA_CFLAGS in src/Configuration file........"
I modify the src/Configuration file:
EXTRA_CFLAGS =-DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE
and then rebuild the server...
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --server-uid=root --server-gid=root
make
make install
and the start apachectl
still fails...the same error.
what should be my possible error?
any help would be greatly appreciated,
warren
