I don't know how much this conversation will benefit the group, but I'll post it here as you suggest. I'm using Apache to serve a document library on a company intranet. Some of the files to which my "Online Library" provides links are on a shared resource called \\datastore\development. The machine containing those files is not running Apache, IIS, or any other HTTP server. When it receives an HTTP request from a browser, it simply refuses the connection. Therefore I can't use "http://datastore/development/myfile.txt"; as the link. Nor can I use "file://datastore/development/myfile.txt", for reasons explained earlier. What I can do is to map //datastore/development to a local drive, from which my Apache server can serve files, and provide an Alias to the local drive such as "dev_share". This allows me to link to the file as, say, http://MyApacheServer/dev_share/myfile.txt. The issue I was having was with the network login that allows Apache access to the shared resource. -----Original Message----- From: Tony Stevenson [mailto:tony@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Fri 6/8/2007 6:15 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Fwd: Re: Apache, Windows XP, and mapped drives] Re sent to the proper group this time. Jim Owens wrote: > Thanks, I appreciate your help. > That's fine, but please keep the messages on the list for everyone's benefit. > You suggest that if I follow your instructions, I could then use, for > example, http://example.com/topshare. > > Unfortunately, the "example.com" I want to get files from is not running > an http service, and would refuse this request. > Then I am confused, what is Apache for? example.com does not refer to the location your will try and gain access to with Apache. I merely said that if example.com was the website you had configured in Apache, then using my suggested configuration, example.com/topshare would be the same as \\yourserver\topshare Where [1] example.com = your website address (i.e. www.apache.org) [2] topshare = the name of the windows share (the name of the share) [3] yourserver = the name of the server where share is located. I will repeat my suggested config below with some annotations, maybe this will help clear it up for you. <-- Config Example Starts Here --> Alias /topshare //server1/topshare # This line will instruct Apache to use "//server1/topshare" when users attempt to go to /topshare on your website. <Directory "//server1/topshare"> Order deny,allow Allow from all Options indexes </Directory> # These 5 lines basically set the few basic required permissions, and options # you would need to allow Apache to show a directory listing of "//server1/topshare" <-- Config Example Ends Here --> If you place these in your appropriate server or vhost configuration it should work fine (as long as you change the paths to match your environment --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docs-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: docs-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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