Web Sharing with Apache 1

[JJ1]

Hi All,

Sorry if this post is obvious, but I'm a newbie to Apache and I used to use IIS, but got bored of patching it every month!

OS = Windows, Server = Apache 1.3
I need to share a directory which is NOT the document root, but lies elsewhere on the hard disk. I would like this directory to be browsable and readable, but not writable.

The directory I need to share is: C:\My Documents\Music
The Document Root is currently: C:\Websites

I have tried the following:

DocumentRoot "C:/Websites/"

<Directory &quot;C:/My Documents/My Music&quot;>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


However, when I point my browser at: &quot;

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/My Documents/My Music&quot;

, I get error 404.

The other sites folders are being served perfectly and I have NO .htaccess files.

How can I make the &quot;my Music&quot; directory 'webshared'?
Any help on this one would be very much appreciated.
Thanks to all who reply,


James.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Thats because the url after the ip address/servername part is relative to the document root so apache would interpret that as C:\Websites\My Documents\My Music

You can set up an alias in httpd.conf - for example :

Alias /music &quot;C:/My Documents/My Music&quot;

Then do

http://yourhostname/music

Hope this helps

 

[JJ1]

Brilliant ifincham!

Apache is great and I really appreciate that help. I put the &quot;alias /music...&quot; line after my &quot;</directory>.&quot;

I hope this was the right place to add that line.

Anyway, it works perfectly and there's no way I would have found that without your good advice.

Thanks again,

James.

 

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