Re: Error in accessing the home page

[Yehuda Katz <yehuda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Alex Chen <alex_chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

However I have already set ServerRoot to "C:/Program Files/Apache" and DocumentRoot to 'htdocs", therefore  I assume it implies the document root will be "C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs", as indicated in your reply, correct?

The question is why  I have to use <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs"> instead of <Directory "htdocs"> even though DocumentRoot is already set to "htdocs"?

Because the documentation says that the <Directory > block always requires the full path:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#directory

That was a design decision that was probably made years ago.