Description of problem:
When started with a custom "server.document-root", lighttpd refuses to start:

2011-02-04 01:22:59: (configfile.c.1210) base-docroot doesn't exist: /bla 
2011-02-04 01:22:59: (server.c.613) setting default values failed

On the two following directory:

drwxrwxr-x. 32 root wheel 4096 Feb  4 00:49 /foo

drwxrwxr-x. 2 root wheel 4096 Feb  4 01:35 /bar

lighttpd fails to start on "/foo" (which is a mount point for a volume) but works on "/bar". It also fails to start with the document root pointing to my home directory, but succeed to another newly created directory in /home, with a different name, but _same_ permission.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.4.26-2.fc14

How reproducible:
ever.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install lighttpd
2. change document root
3. restart
  
Actual results:
2011-02-04 01:22:59: (configfile.c.1210) base-docroot doesn't exist: /foo/www 
2011-02-04 01:22:59: (server.c.613) setting default values failed

Expected results:
it should start normally, permission seems correct (see below)

Additional info:
Running lighttpd as root, on a command line:

/usr/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

works fine with the same root directory the script refused to start on.

It would seem that when run from the startup script, lighttpd gets a permission denied. If I wrap /usr/sbin/lighttpd in a shell script, starting an interactive sub-shell, and running the above command is strace results in the following:

stat("/foo/www", 0x7fff408e4a80)       = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

Copying the startup script from /etc/init.d/lighttpd to /etc/init.d/lighttpd.sh, without any modification make the startup succeed

I am not sure to pin-point the source of the limitation.