Re: URG:DocumentRoot relate query on WIndows (Apache Users)

You can set the DocumentRoot to "C:/" (note the forward slash instead of the backslash).

You can technically set it to just "/" also if you want the drive where HTTPD is located.

When running HTTPD on Windows, it is good practice to use forward slashes even though backslashes work in some places.

This is supposed to be inserted as a comment in the Windows httpd.conf (by httpd/branches/2.4.x/build/installwinconf.awk):

# NOTE: Where filenames are specified, you must use forward slashes
# instead of backslashes (e.g., "c:/apache" instead of "c:\apache").
# If a drive letter is omitted, the drive on which httpd.exe is located
# will be used by default. It is recommended that you always supply
# an explicit drive letter in absolute paths to avoid confusion.

- Y

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 8:37 AM, Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Ishan Thakur
<ishanthakur41@xxxxxxxx.invalid> wrote:
> “We are setting the documentRoot as “web”(no complete absolute path). This
> works fine for all the paths.
> The paths can be direct drive(D:\). But it fails only for C drive(C:\). The
> same works fine for all other paths(D:\, C:\Program Files…etc)
>
> For C drive, we are getting following error:
>
> Syntax error on line 129 of C:/httpd.conf:
> DocumentRoot must be a directory
> “
> Is there any restriction for C drive on Windows for Apache httpd-2.2.31?

You'll have to provide some more detail. How does "web" work for
different drive letters? Do you specify different server roots in
different configuration files?

There's nothing special about the C drive when you specify a DocumentRoot.

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Eric Covener
covener@xxxxxxxxx

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