On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 07:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This... > Alias /music "d:/my music" > <directory "d:/my music"> > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </directory> > ...Doesnt work. Does it have to be somehwere special in the config file? > stopped and restarted apache to refresh config file. > > furthermore the link path upon clicking shows file:///D:/My Music rather > than http://localhost/D:/My Music >
You need to understand the difference between URL paths and file paths. Apache mounts (or attaches) the folder specified in the DocumentRoot directive into the URL-space at '/'. Therefore, if you ask for '/music/', and your document root is "c:/www-root", then it looks for the folder 'c:/www-root/music/' on your disk. There is NO WAY to specify a hyperlink that looks at your D drive, or anywhere outside your document root. To work around that, you can alias other parts of your filesystem in the URL-space, with the Alias command. To then use that alias, as posted by Eric Covener, you would have a URL to linking to '/music/foo.mp3', which apache will translate to 'd:/my music/foo.mp3'. I hope that makes it clearer. If not, the manual is a good read. Tom
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