Topic: DocumentRoot problem on different physical drive

[Thanatos]

I've just installed apache v2.2.6 and am trying to change the DocumentRoot to a separate drive, D drive, which it doesn't seem to like.

For example, if I set the DocumentRoot to:

DocumentRoot "C:/test"
...
<Directory "C:/test">

Then everything works fine, however if I move the directory and change those to D:/test, then try to restart the service, it gives me an error saying "The requested operation has failed", and that's it.
I've also tried setting up virtual hosts but I get the same result, it works fine on C drive but as soon as I try on D drive the apache service won't even start.

I've been searching but have been unable to find any help. I've found a couple of posts with people asking about the same problem but none have had answers.
One such post here: http://www.webservertalk.com/archive199-2004-2-116658.html

Though strangely he says it worked when he tried it on Windows XP, which is what I am running it on.

I could just copy my local copy to C drive, but I would really rather not do that if I don't need to, so if anyone could help that would be greatly appreciated. If I've left out any important information, which I probably have, let me know and I'll post it.

[tdonovan]

Anything in your Apache logs\error.log file?

Instead of starting the Apache service - you could open a command window, change to the Apache \bin directory, and start Apache with:

[Thanatos]

No, nothing in the error log, it just says "Child process exited successfully" on stopping the service, but no errors.

"httpd.exe -w -e debug" does not give any errors, and everything works just fine with it on D drive, though the apache service still refuses to run.

Oh well, this seems to work ok for what I want to use it for, thank you.