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robbeck
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 Posted: Sat 06 Aug '11 8:00 Post subject: Alias problem |
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Hi, I'm new and hoping someone can figure out what I'm doing wrong. I am using Apache 2.2.19 on a Windows XP machine to serve video and music to my Roku. I am trying to set up an alias to access another drive and can't seem to get it right. The Apache server won't start (the requested operation has failed), yet there is no new entry in the error log. When I run test configuration there are no errors there, either.
Here is part of the .conf file:
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# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
#
DocumentRoot "f:/www/"
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<Directory "f:/www/">
#
# Example:
# Alias /webpath /full/filesystem/path
#
# If you include a trailing / on /webpath then the server will
# require it to be present in the URL. You will also likely
# need to provide a <Directory> section to allow access to
# the filesystem path.
Alias /media/music z:/rob
<Directory "z:/rob">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
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I've tried different things like putting quotes around the first z:/rob, putting forward slashes at the end of everything but I can't get it right for some reason. Here is a picture of my normal web server:
I want to add an alias for the music folder for z:\rob,
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help and I hope I've provided enough information. |
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Steffen
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| Posted: Sat 06 Aug '11 12:19 Post subject: |
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Was there an error in the Windows Event Viewer ?
Try the following:
DocumentRoot f:/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride none
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /media/music "z:/rob"
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Kanashii
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James Blond
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| Posted: Sat 06 Aug '11 14:55 Post subject: |
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| Is that z: drive a networkdrive? |
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robbeck
Joined: 06 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Sat 06 Aug '11 16:36 Post subject: |
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| Steffen wrote: | Was there an error in the Windows Event Viewer ?
Try the following:
DocumentRoot f:/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride none
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /media/music "z:/rob"
Steffen |
The answer to your question is yes.
The Apache service named reported the following error:
>>> <Directory "z:/rob"> path is invalid. .
I tried your suggestion. I deleted:
Alias /media/music z:/rob
<Directory "z:/rob">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
I removed the forward slash and quotations from documentroot. I added your suggestion and there are no errors but I can't see my alias directory on the the web. |
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robbeck
Joined: 06 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Sat 06 Aug '11 16:46 Post subject: |
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I replaced Alias /media/music "z:/rob" in the suggestion above with
Alias http://192.168.0.2:8080/media/music/ "z:/rob"
and I still can't see the z:\rob directory |
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robbeck
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| Posted: Sat 06 Aug '11 16:48 Post subject: |
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| James Blond wrote: | | Is that z: drive a networkdrive? |
Yes it's a folder on another computer. This must be one of the problems. I changed the alias to a local drive and now I get the following error:
[Sat Aug 06 08:05:43 2011] [error] [client 192.168.0.2] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: D:/Temp/, referer: http://192.168.0.2:8080/media/
BTW thanks to all for replying to my original message. |
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James Blond
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| Posted: Sat 06 Aug '11 21:05 Post subject: |
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| If you install apache as service on windows you can't access network drives. You have to create a new user for that and run the apache service with that user. |
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robbeck
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| Posted: Sun 07 Aug '11 3:55 Post subject: |
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| OK I created a new user account and logged off my admin account, logged on as the new user, and I still can't see my z folder on the web. I don't know what else to try. Can the new user be an admin or does it matter? |
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glsmith
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| Posted: Sun 07 Aug '11 11:17 Post subject: |
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I really need to dig this faq out of my archives and put it somewhere ... this has just reminded me.
It is not so just you logging in as that user and starting Apache. Especially if you do not want to have to log in under this name and start Apache from the console. You need to set the user of the service as it. Once you have done that (not saying you did not), there is one more thing that must be done.
Say you made a username on the server computer for Apache called simply Apache
On the remote machine, there must also be a user named Apache, and that user must have rights (at least read-only) to the share. That user on the remote computer must also have the same password. It's just like you and remote computer. You have your login name and password on it so you can log into it and get into it from a remote computer on the LAN no? |
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robbeck
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| Posted: Sun 07 Aug '11 23:20 Post subject: |
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| If you could it might be a great help. There are are a lot of folks now streaming from more than one machine, I would think. |
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