>Number: 2518 >Category: os-windows >Synopsis: additional information on what looks similiar to PR#1558 >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Sun Jun 28 03:10:00 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: Win32/1.3.0 >Environment: WinNT 4.0/Service Pack 3/Apache installed as Service >Description: This appears to be relevant to the existing report PR#1558, or at least it's very close to the same problem.
After installing Apache 1.3.0 on NT 4.0/SP3, running a P90/32Meg with IIS disabled, I noticed that if I pointed an Alias in the .srm conf file to a drive physically on another machine on my internal network, the images I was pointing to would not display when I viewed the page from a third machine, through the server url's. (i.e. Alias /images/ "d:/inetpub/wwwroot/") Not too worried about it at the time, since I had installed Apache on this box to solve another problem in entirety, I fixed my initial problem and returned to this one. Sometime in my fiddling and playing with the server I had somehow gotten this to work, the images were now displaying correctly in my documents. After thinking about what I did, I figured out that if the Apache server is loaded automatically as a service when NT starts up, it is unable to see in the needed manner the drive on the "other" machine in the network that the Alias points to. Even after a user is logged on locally and his usuing that drive connection, thus the tree being in memory and available. To test this I stopped the version that was running as a system service, and opened a DOS window, went to the \apache directory (where it is installed) and ran the .exe from there. This worked. Here is the output I got in my error log file: [Sat Jun 27 23:07:32 1998] [error] File does not exist: d:/inetpub/wwwroot/images/FPCreated.gif [Sat Jun 27 23:08:57 1998] [crit] (13)Permission denied: d:/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable The only other thing that was done in the conf files was adding Includes to the access.conf for the directory that the HTML was in. Please feel free to contact me at the given address for more information. >How-To-Repeat: I'm sorry I can't give you example URL's as this is an internal private site at this time, but I will help to re-create this as best able, working with your people if you wish. >Fix: I'm not that good a programmer to attack this, but the problem would seem to lay in the file access differences between a process running as a system service versus from a DOS prompt. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ]
