Chef set DocumentRoot in httpd recipe

Question

Using https://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/httpd/versions/0.1.5

Does anyone know how to set DocumentRoot ? Property ?

I'm currently using

httpd_service "default" do
  listen_ports ['81']
  action :create
end

which produces

ServerName centos65x64
ServerRoot /etc/httpd
PidFile /var/run/httpd/httpd.pid
User apache
Group apache
Timeout 400
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log
LogLevel warn
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 5
DefaultType None
HostnameLookups off

Listen 0.0.0.0:81
Include conf.d/*.conf
Include conf.d/*.load

In httpd.conf, but i'm not sure exactly how to set the DocRoot.

Answer 1

The httpd_config resource included in the cookbook will deploy a httpd config file from template to a httpd instance's config directory, to be included when httpd is run. You can configure your VirtualHosts or the main server from these templates as opposed to say, setting a node attribute that the cookbook picks up and generates a virtualhost for you.

This means you can create an Erubis template for your VirtualHost config. There is an of such a config in the cookbook tests...

<VirtualHost *:81>
    ServerAdmin mike@patel.net

    DocumentRoot /var/www
    CustomLog /var/log/apache/mike-patel-access.log combined

    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>

    <Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

    LogLevel warn
</VirtualHost>