Yeah, I found that one. That's part of why I'm still stumped. I have the proper user account configured for both the Apache and ColdFusion services, and I've tried the UNC path by IP, as well as mapping the IP to the servername via the host file. All with no dice.
Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com John Paul Ashenfelter wrote: > On 5/23/07, Cutter (CFRelated) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Our issue is in part of the Apache config. As in our production >> environment, the database server and media server are remote entities. >> In production we connect to our media through UNC pathing, with virtual >> directory mappings in IIS. In our localized scenario, it seems like we >> are supposed to create virtual directories via 'Alias's. Although I have >> configured the Alias declarations within the config, and the server >> starts without error, I cannot get an 'index' listing of any of these >> directories, nor pull up any content. It always gives me a 404 "Not >> Found" error. I have tried putting the Aliases at the root and the site >> level, without luck in either situation. The rest of the site's contents >> are fine (stylesheets, base templates, etc.), it is only content from >> these virtual Aliases. An example of the Alias declaration is below (for >> future reference, I have tried this with the slashes in the other >> direction, two beginning slashes instead of four, with and without >> quotation marks, and using a mapped drive letter, all without success) > > I found this blog post summed it up http://abelleba.metacarpus.com/?p=4 > > There's two common probs -- one is the user Apache runs as, which > needs to be *not* SYSTEM and have the appropriate persmissions, which > it sounds like you do. The other common problem I've seen is that > Apache can't find the server by name thanks to NetBIOS/whatever is > running under the hood. I'd start by trying to UNC by IP address or by > putting the name/ip combo in the local HOSTS file. > >> #Alias for /Images >> Alias /Images "\\\\[myremoteserv]\Images" >> <Directory "\\\\[myremoteserv]\Images"> >> Options All >> AllowOverride All >> Order allow,deny >> Allow from all >> </Directory> >> >> The Apache server is set to run as a user who does have access rights to >> the remote UNC path (verified). I'm just not getting anything. (Apache >> 2.0.59) Any help resolving this would be greatly appreciated. >> >> -- >> Steve "Cutter" Blades >> Adobe Certified Professional >> Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer >> _____________________________ >> http://blog.cutterscrossing.com >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279014 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
