Re: [users@httpd] URG:DocumentRoot relate query on WIndows

[Yehuda Katz <ye...@ymkatz.net>]

Could this be a bug or feature in the Windows path handling?
I have never touched this part of the code, but I don't immediately see
where Windows paths would be handled differently.
I suspect it is in apr_filepath_root in apr file_io/win32/filepath.c

I am trying to get my Windows build environment working, but if someone has
seen this before, it might save me the time.

- Y

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Yehuda Katz <ye...@ymkatz.net> wrote:

> 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 <co...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Ishan Thakur
>> <is...@yahoo.in.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.
>>
>> --
>> Eric Covener
>> covener@gmail.com
>>
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