Cannot start apache when documentroot points to s3fs mount point

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Detailed description of support request:

I have one mount point from S3 and I can access it from OS. My intention is to 
point my apache document root to this mount point. However, when I do so and 
restart apache, it throws the following error:

sudo service apache2 restart
 * Restarting web server apache2                                                                                          Warning: DocumentRoot [/mnt/s3] does not exist
 ... waiting Warning: DocumentRoot [/mnt/s3] does not exist

Any idea?

I can access it properly:

ls -l /mnt/s3
total 0
d--------- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Jan 20  2013 mypictures
drwxrwxrwx 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Apr 16 06:58 www

ubuntu@ip-10-185-225-2:/mnt/s3/www$ ls -ld /mnt/s3
drwxr-xr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Jan  1  1970 /mnt/s3

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Version of s3fs being used (s3fs --version):

s3fs --version
Amazon Simple Storage Service File System 1.71


Version of fuse being used (pkg-config --modversion fuse):

pkg-config --modversion fuse
2.8.6


System information (uname -a):

uname -a
Linux ip-10-185-225-2 3.2.0-58-virtual #88-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 3 17:58:13 UTC 
2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux



Distro (cat /etc/issue):

cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS \n \l


s3fs command line used (if applicable):

Not sure what command you need, sharing the mount command used:

s3fs -o uid=1000,gid=1000,use_cache=/home/ubuntu/cache <myBucketName> /mnt/s3

I am using the password eith ACCESS keys etc. located in my home directory.

/etc/fstab entry (if applicable):

No entry so far

s3fs syslog messages (grep s3fs /var/log/syslog):

grep s3fs /var/log/syslog
Apr 16 06:07:01 ip-10-185-225-2 s3fs: init $Rev: 444 $

Original issue reported on code.google.com by abhisekb...@msn.com on 16 Apr 2014 at 7:31