Topic: cannot use mapped drive as document root

[chedderslam]

[Wed Jul 28 11:39:49 2010] [notice] Parent: Received restart signal -- Restarting the server.
[Wed Jul 28 11:39:49 2010] [notice] Child 3780: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
Syntax error on line 178 of C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/httpd.conf:
DocumentRoot must be a directory
[Wed Jul 28 11:39:49 2010] [warn] (OS 995)The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request. : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.
[Wed Jul 28 11:39:50 2010] [notice] Child 3780: Released the start mutex
[Wed Jul 28 11:39:51 2010] [notice] Child 3780: All worker threads have exited.
[Wed Jul 28 11:39:51 2010] [notice] Child 3780: Child process is exiting

I am trying to access a mapped drive on my windows 7 machine from the xp box running apache. I have shared d:\inetpub with access to everyone and mapped it as z: on the apache box.

This is in the conf:
# 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 "z:/wwwroot"

I have also tried running the apache service under my local user account. Still no dice.

Please help.

[glsmith]

have you tried

//computername/sharename/directory ?

[PipoDeClown]

you probable already tried Win32DisableAcceptEx described at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_winnt.html ?