William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
Dragon wrote:William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:Jim Owens wrote:I just set up Apache 2.2.4 on a Windows XP system (from the current .msi), and I thought I’d share my findings about using mapped network drives. If anyone else is trying to deal with this, one workaround is to turn the Apache service off and run httpd.exe in a command-prompt window instead. That worked for me. I’ve added the httpd.exe to mystartup folder. It may also work if you change the dependencies of the service to wait to start until windows networking is started. This may simply be a race condition where networking share components don't finish starting before apache gets that far.---------------- End original message. --------------------- If what William states is in fact what is going on, you could probably still use Apache as a service if you start it manually instead of letting it start automatically. Change the service properties from automatic to manual and then start it from the service window after you are sure the network is functioning.Nice test case, yes!
I have just tried to replicate this, and when you use the mapped network drives, or other media that is dis-connectable (USB, FlashMedia etc) Apache throws up errors in the errorlog. In so much that is alias is "ignored" and you generate a standard 404 error. "[Thu Jun 07 22:49:46 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist......"
That is if you use a <Directory> block. If you use a <Location> block instead the error is no longer recorded. Even with LogLevel debug enabled.
However if you replace the mapped drive letter with the full UNC path it works just fine. i.e.
Alias /myuncpath "//server1.example.com/folder1/folder2/youruncpath" <Directory "//server1.example.com/folder1/folder2/youruncpath" Order deny,allow Allow from all Options indexes </Directory>I have just tested this option, and it works fine with 2.2.4, 2.2.3, and 2.0.59. On Windows XP, and Windows 2000
Jim, you also say you get an error "the Aliased resource was not found on the server." where are you seeing that exactly? In the errorlog?
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