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TheLandYacht
Joined: 23 Jul 2010
Posts: 1
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 Posted: Fri 23 Jul '10 11:17 Post subject: Files and/or links outside the DocumentRoot |
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Been huntin like crazy to find a way around this...the instructions on Apache's main site read like greek to me cuz I don't know enough about *nix to translate it to something I can use in Windows.
OK. So, my situation. Recently installed & configured (for the first time) Apache for WinXP. (Think it's 2.2). Got it setup right (I guess), since puttin "localhost" in a browser gives me "It Works". Eventually I'll have a page built in here that (and here's the key part) accesses files not not only not inside the DocumentRoot folder, but not even on the same hard drive, due to size constraints.
Eventually, a page in this document will have links that look like
| Code: | | <A HREF="FILE://whatever.mpg>CLICK HERE</A> |
which when opened will, if they function the same as when I just drop the html from a folder on the hard drive into a browser...just open the file as if I'd doubleclicked it...when I click on the link.
But the mpeg files (and assorted other files) can't live on that drive cuz it ain't big enough...matter of fact, no single drive is.
I thought about using a "junction", like http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=47961, but when I point a browser at it after restarting Apache...it asks me for a username & password (!?).
Am I overthinking this? Is there an easier way to point outside DocumentRoot? |
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7371
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
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the file in the href does not work. If you have a folder outside the document root with your videos it is easier to create an alias to that folder
e.g
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Alias /videos/ C:/videos
<Directory C:/videos>
Options All
Order Allow, Deny
Allow from All
Deny from none
</Directory>
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Than in the html
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<a href="/videos/whatever.mpg">CLICK HERE</a>
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