Using The External Harddrive

Hi Apache Room
I installed Apache server sometime ago.
I can host 2 of my own small websites now.
But I have the content of my sites in the internal hard drive.
Because I have a small 50GB internal hard drive, I would like to keep the content of my sites in my external hard drive.
Please any one let me know how I do that
Kindly Amanda Nguyen

 

RTFM?

Specify the root you want in the httpd.conf file. Its all in the docs.

 

HSH
Thank You for your reply, Grunt !
May I ask: what do you mean by "Its all in the docs" ?
In the httpd.conf file, I see this:

ServerRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2"

You mean that I should change it into:

ServerRoot "F:/xxx"

?

( Where F is the name of my external hard drive and xxx is the folder containing the content of the site )



Amanda Nguyen

 

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ Is the Apache Projects documentation. It has everything you need to know about the httpd.conf file.

For instance: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#documentroot contains the systax for the DocumentRoot directive. That is the directive that tells Apache where to look for the documents.

You can use this within the VirtualHost http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#virtualhost directive if you are running multiple websites on a single instance of Apache...

 

Hi Grunt

In the httpd.conf file, I specify the following:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.agoldenmoment.com
ServerAlias agoldenmoment.com *.agoldenmoment.com
DocumentRoot F:/sites/agoldenmoment
</VirtualHost>

Where F:/sites/agoldenmoment is the folder in my external hard drive containing the content of my agoldenmoment website.

But the browser couldn't open the site
( it worked when I specified:
NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.agoldenmoment.com
ServerAlias agoldenmoment.com *.agoldenmoment.com
DocumentRoot htdocs/agoldenmoment
</VirtualHost>

)

So what did I go wrong ?

Thank You Beforehand
Amanda Nguyen

 

DocumentRoot F:/sites/agoldenmoment
should be:
DocumentRoot "F:\sites\agoldenmoment"

 

Thanks for the post, Grunt!
Hi Grunt

I just tried specifying:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.agoldenmoment.com
ServerAlias agoldenmoment.com *.agoldenmoment.com
DocumentRoot "F:\sites\agoldenmoment"
</VirtualHost>

It doesn't work .... The IE browser says "The website declined to show this webpage..........HTTP 403"
I tried to turn off "Friendly HTTP error messages" in IE options, I
got this message:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Amanda Nguyen

 

Wow.
Windows sux!

Try it this way:


<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.agoldenmoment.com
ServerAlias agoldenmoment.com *.agoldenmoment.com
DocumentRoot "F:\sites\agoldenmoment"
DirectoryIndex index.html (or whatever your home page is.
</VirtualHost>


You need to specify a default page because directory browsing is defined....

 

Hi Grunt

I tried your way:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.agoldenmoment.com
ServerAlias agoldenmoment.com *.agoldenmoment.com
DocumentRoot "F:\sites\agoldenmoment"
DirectoryIndex index.html (or whatever your home page is.
</VirtualHost>

I still receive the error massage:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Strange !

Amanda Nguyen

 

Hi Grunt

I tried your way:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.agoldenmoment.com
ServerAlias agoldenmoment.com *.agoldenmoment.com
DocumentRoot "F:\sites\agoldenmoment"
DirectoryIndex index.html
</VirtualHost>

I still receive the error massage:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Strange !

Amanda Nguyen

 

Well, unless you have some weird permissions set on your F drive, I am out of ideas. You need to access the apache error log and see what the internal error is for me to even begin to make any more assumptions or guesses.
Look at the system error logs as well, and see if there are any errors there as well...

 

Grunt !

I've tried to remove the "Read-Only" attribute on my "F:\sites" folder without success. The "Read-Only" attribute rechecks the next time the "F\sites" folder is right clicked. Solutions , ideas ? Hints ? Something has to happen , or the puppys' gonna die ! hehehehehe !


Access log:
83.92.90.54 - - [28/Dec/2008:08:52:54 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 202
83.92.90.54 - - [28/Dec/2008:09:01:53 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 202

Error log:
[Sun Dec 28 08:52:54 2008] [error] [client 83.92.90.54] client denied by server configuration: F:/sites/agoldenmoment/
[Sun Dec 28 09:01:53 2008] [error] [client 83.92.90.54] client denied by server configuration: F:/sites/agoldenmoment/

You said: "Look at the system error logs as well,.......". Please let me know where is the system error logs !

Amanda Nguyen