aliased folders

[MDEdwards]

I have a folder aliased:

Alias /mechs/ "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Games/MechWarrior Vengeance/resource/variants"
<Directory &quot;C:/Program Files/Microsoft Games/MechWarrior Vengeance/resource/variants&quot;>
Options Indexes MultiViews
Options +Includes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

first off, is that done correctly? and second off, people arent able to download any of the files located in that folder. Have I done something wrong?

MDE

 

[RhythmAce]

It looks like it should work. Since you have that dir aliased, it will look like it's off the DocumentRoot to the browser, i.e.

http://www.yourdomain.com/mechs/.

 

[MDEdwards]

aye, okay good. Any idea why people wouldnt be able to download any of the files listed there?

 

[MDEdwards]

any ideas?

 

[RhythmAce]

What are the extentions of the files? It makes a difference to the browser. Some browsers will only try to download and archived file. Some will also try to download an exe but don't count on it, mine won't. I have access to both Windows and linux, so if you can create a temp dir just like the one you are trying to get to work and put the link here, I can try it and might be able to help you more. Other than that, you might try to use a downloader script. In the mean time, check out your logs and see what errors you get when you try downloading from that dir. Sorry I'm not much help.

 

[MDEdwards]

it is not possible to download any files, even TXT files cannot be viewed/downloaded.

 

[MDEdwards]

when they try to download a file, they get an error:

Not Found
The requested URL /mechs/file.txt was not found on this server.

-- Sorry for the multiposts!

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

Use the following instead..

Alias /mechs/ &quot;C:/Program Files/Microsoft Games/MechWarrior Vengeance/resource/variants/&quot;
<Directory &quot;C:/Program Files/Microsoft Games/MechWarrior Vengeance/resource/variants&quot;>
Options Indexes MultiViews
Options +Includes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Hope this helps Wullie

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[RhythmAce]

OK - now we're gettin' somewhere. ) I think apache is having fits from those spaces in the path. Try a backslash to see if that helps. For example: Program\ Files and Microsoft\ Games.

 

[MDEdwards]

aye, thankyou, I had tried that right after I posted the previous post, but then my internet went down (darn company!), so I was unable to post my fix! Thank you anyways!