Thanks to all who replies to my question. I guess I will need to read the document more thoroughly. It would be nice this is information is included as comments in the config file, though. Alex On Nov 29, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Bennett, Tony wrote: > Documentation on the <Directory> container: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#directory > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Chen [mailto:alex_chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 3:58 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Error in accessing the home page > > Thanks for the answer, Knute, > > 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"? > > > On Nov 29, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Knute Johnson wrote: > >> On 11/29/2012 3:10 PM, Alex Chen wrote: >>> I downloaded the Apache 2.2.22 Windows msi and installed it as a console app, I copied all the files to C:/Program Files/Apache and uninstalled Apache to have a stock copy of the installation. >>> I made the following changes in httpd.conf. >>> >>> ServerRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache" >>> Listen 8080 >>> LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so >>> DocumentRoot "htdocs" >>> ErrorLog "logs/error.log" >>> >>> <Directory "htdocs"> >>> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks >>> AllowOverride None >>> Order allow,deny >>> Allow from all >>> </Directory> >>> >>> When I used IE to access http://localhost:8080, I got the following error: >>> Forbidden >>> >>> You don't have permission to access / on this server. >>> >>> Apache/2.2.22 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/1.0.1c Server at localhost Port 8080 >>> >>> I saw the following entry in error.log >>> [Thu Nov 29 14:15:39 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs/ >>> >>> However if I changed the directory setting to the followings, it worked fine even though the DocumentRoot setting remained the same. >>> >>> <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache/htdocs"> >>> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks >>> AllowOverride None >>> Order allow,deny >>> Allow from all >>> </Directory> >>> >>> It seems that the DocumentRoot directive accepts a relative path name but the <Directory> structure requires the full path, is that the case? >>> >>> Alex >> >> This directive sets the directory from which httpd will serve files. Unless matched by a directive like Alias, the server appends the path from the requested URL to the document root to make the path to the document. Example: >> >> DocumentRoot /usr/web >> >> then an access to http://www.my.host.com/index.html refers to /usr/web/index.html. If the directory-path is not absolute then it is assumed to be relative to the ServerRoot. >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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