[users@httpd] Apache 2.4 failing to start as non-privileged user can't write to /var/lock & /var/run

[James Smith <js...@sanger.ac.uk>]

I have just upgraded from apache 2.2 to apache 2.4 - running apache2 as (me)
a non-privileged user... as part of a development server....

When I start apache I get the following errors (to screen)..

mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/run/apache2': Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of '/var/lock/apache2.SflOHVQnC2': Operation 
not permitted
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/run/apache2': Permission denied
chown: changing ownership of '/var/lock/apache2.LDivziHYgr': Operation 
not permitted

and in the error logs...

[Wed Dec 17 15:30:56.576419 2014] [core:info] [pid 6729] AH00096: 
removed PID file /www/tmp/js5/www-dev/logs/apache2.pid (pid=6729)
[Wed Dec 17 15:30:56.576451 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 6729] 
AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Wed Dec 17 15:31:00.990415 2014] [core:emerg] [pid 6790] (13)Permission 
denied: AH00023: Couldn't create the proxy mutex (file 
/var/lock/apache2/proxy.6790)
[Wed Dec 17 15:31:00.990492 2014] [proxy:crit] [pid 6790] (13)Permission 
denied: AH02478: failed to create proxy mutex

I have configured:

PidFile               ${PAGESMITH_SERVER_LOGS}/apache2.pid
Mutex               file:${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} default

where these point to directories in /www/tmp/js5, additionally 
APACHE_RUN_DIR is set to
a path in /www/tmp/js5

so don't expect Apache to be trying to write to the /var/run and 
/var/lock directories,
are there any other locations/configuration directives that I need to 
change to stop
the site writing these files...

James


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