[Clug-tech] Serve HTTP files from server via NFS over NFS

[clug-lists@vlietwerkz.ca]

 Hey all,

I'm wondering if anyone's ever tried this or might know why it's not
working...

2 CentOS 5 servers
One hosting an HTTP daemon: "prod"
One hosting files: "archive"

1 D-LINK DNS 328 NAS hosting large files accessible via "archive".  This
one is know as "nas"

I'm trying to serve files from "nas" via the httpd service on "prod". 

"prod" can access an NFS share on "archive"

within that share location, there is another NFS mount pointing to files
on "nas"

web client --> "prod" --> "archive" --> "nas" --> (big files)

I used  # mount --bind /var/data/mirror/bigfiles /var/data/nas/bigfiles
to put the files that are on the NAS into the mirror directory.  
Well...  it didn't work.  The directory /var/data/mirror/bigfiles
doesn't show up on the web site.  Kind of at a bit of a loss here - I
was under the impression that when you bound a directory using "# mount
--bind", that it was indistinguishable from an actual folder.

Any thoughts anyone?

Thanks,
Andrew Vliet
Vlietwerkz Inc.