Re: [users@httpd] Re: Help with config

2011-01-14 Thread Bob Wilson
On 14/01/2011 01:49, DW wrote: See if this helps: <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/urlmapping.html> Good luck. Bob Wilson wrote: Can any one help with the initial configuration of Apache? I was told that to make localhost point to a alternative directory I should change bo

Re: [users@httpd] Re: Help with config

2011-01-14 Thread Bob Wilson
On 14/01/2011 08:01, Carsten Wiedmann wrote: Am 13.01.2011 13:41, schrieb Bob Wilson: DocumentRoot "C:/Users/User/My Documents/htdocs" Which doesn't work with error message 'The requested operation has failed!' IMHO "My Documents" should writte

Re: [users@httpd] Help with config

2011-01-14 Thread Bob Wilson
On 14/01/2011 08:28, Joost de Heer wrote: I have changed it to: DocumentRoot "C:/Users/User/My Documents/htdocs" Windows 7 has pretty strict ACLs on the c:\users directory. Check to see which account is used to run Apache httpd and check to see if this account has access to the directory c:\use

Re: [users@httpd] Help with config

2011-01-13 Thread Bob Wilson
On 13/01/2011 17:02, Nick Kew wrote: On 13 Jan 2011, at 12:41, Bob Wilson wrote: Can any one help with the initial configuration of Apache? Get the error message from apache. Open a command window, and run "apache -X" in it. That should either work (in which case your problem is

Re: [users@httpd] Help with config

2011-01-13 Thread Bob Wilson
On 13/01/2011 13:27, Simone Caruso wrote: On 13/01/2011 13:41, Bob Wilson wrote: Can any one help with the initial configuration of Apache? I was told that to make localhost point to a alternative directory I should change both the 'Documentroot' AND 'Directory' paths

[users@httpd] Help with config

2011-01-13 Thread Bob Wilson
Can any one help with the initial configuration of Apache? I was told that to make localhost point to a alternative directory I should change both the 'Documentroot' AND 'Directory' paths The original info in httpd.conf works OK DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/A