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Synopsis: Continuing problems with root directories of other drives State-Changed-From-To: feedback-closed State-Changed-By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] State-Changed-When: Tue Feb 2 10:59:07 PST 1999 State-Changed-Why: >I have just tried this. The authentication now seems >to work okay, but there is still an problem with >handling the root directory. If I request > >http://x.y.z/croot (without trailing slash) > >I am prompted for a username and password, then Apache >tells the browser that /croot was not found. This >strange behaviour is explained by the entry in the >error log: > >d:\Apache\Apache.exe: [Tue Feb 02 17:36:52 1999] [error] > [client 194.66.234.253] File does not exist: > d:/pub/wwwroot/croot > >So it still does not work properly for me. > >Richard When I request http://x.y.z/croot I do not get prompted for a password, but the server does return file not found. This is working as expected because you have an alias set up for /croot/ but not /croot Ken Coar and I were just talking about this, and here is his take: There needs to be parity wrt trailing slashes on the alias and the target. And, if your target is a directory on your C drive, this causes no problem. I.e., the following would (should) both work: Alias /cdir "C:/cdir" Alias /cdir/ "C:/cdir/" Unfortunately, due to Win32's concept of per-drive current directory, *all* references that mention drive letters must be absolute (i.e., must begin with "letter:/"). So if you want to alias a URI to the top of your C drive as mentioned here, you run into the slash parity problem: your alias needs to have it in order to match the required syntax of the target. This appears to be a Win32 restriction. The only possible solution I see is to add a Redirect or Rewrite rule that converts "/cdir" into "/cdir/" and leave the 'Alias /cdir/ "C:/"' in there.
